Example sentences of "and [adv] far [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so far for a while , we did . ’ |
| 2 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 3 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 4 | Went through the land ; and even far in the hills , |
| 5 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , the tear on the shift is too high to coincide with that on the dress , and too far to the side . ’ |
| 7 | The only practical flaw I can find is some faintly uneven string-spacing at the nut , making the top E string too close to the B string and too far from the edge . |