Example sentences of "[v-ing] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took a slice of bread from the wooden board and , keeping as far away from the growling dogs as possible , crossed to the cooker in the far corner near the pantry door . |
| 2 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 3 | They passed the beast cautiously , keeping as far away as possible , Allen and Marian with their bows ready , and Hugh with his sword in his good hand . |
| 4 | Jimmy skipped away up the stairs towards the plinth , just as the girl began to sit up , with Duvall and Rohmer keeping as far away from her as possible . |
| 5 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 6 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |
| 7 | PORTADOWN families holidaying as far away as Crete have written home condemning the IRA for destroying their town , it was revealed today . |
| 8 | We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them . |
| 9 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 10 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 11 | The library was large and , rather than hunt through the endless rows of volumes dating as far back as 1530 , she had sought the help of the librarian . |
| 12 | Their request , therefore is that the NBCW provides a regular input expressing as far as is possible , the concerns and views of women in the Church on topics which seem to women to be most crucial or fundamental . |
| 13 | A man of independent means , Barton travelled widely , visiting France and Italy and possibly venturing as far afield as Poland and Russia , and pursued interests in economics and botany . |
| 14 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 15 | Right my wife was selling as far as I was concerned . |
| 16 | Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come |
| 17 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 18 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 19 | Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity . |
| 20 | They are going as far as Collie . |
| 21 | Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users . |
| 22 | I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
| 24 | As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains . |
| 25 | Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ? |
| 26 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 27 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 28 | Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father . |
| 29 | considering we 're going as far what about . |
| 30 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |