Example sentences of "[pers pn] far [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
| 2 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 4 | The recollection appeared to cause him further amusement . |
| 5 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 6 | She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer . |
| 7 | The sudden increase in unemployment after 1930 gave it further importance . |
| 8 | Future clinical research will no doubt give us further insight into the role of lipid abnormalities in the development of macrovascular disease in the diabetic . |