Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to do far too much last year . |
| 2 | I heard Uncle Bill mutter : ‘ Maybe you 're right , dog , I 'd gone far enough . ’ |
| 3 | I did put far too much sugar in it cos it all exploded . |
| 4 | I had become far too used to hearing not conspicuously brilliant boys called Socrates and Aristotle , and to addressing the ill-favoured old woman who did my room out as Aphrodite , to smile . |
| 5 | This was a book I had thought far superior to the Reflexions sur la Violence . |
| 6 | I wanted to get far away from him as I could . |
| 7 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 8 | She blinked and scoured her brain desperately for a neutral topic of conversation to deflect his attention , but the question which emerged proved far from neutral . |
| 9 | Her frock , which had cost far less than one of her hats in her old life , was a short-sleeved model in navy blue , with a sailor 's collar in navy blue and white silk , and had anchors embroidered around the hem of her skirt . |
| 10 | A Hornby clockwork train and a Number 4 Meccano set , both of which had given far more pleasure to John Redburn than they had to his son . |
| 11 | On the corner of the opposite side was a house which had seen far better days but thankfully has now been restored . |
| 12 | I was immensely proud of this , having no idea that ‘ the Friends ’ was now a rapidly growing organization which had moved far beyond my immediate circle . |
| 13 | By the nineteenth , they were very important and expensive institutions which had moved far from their original concerns with navigation and positional astronomy . |
| 14 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 15 | He was the sort of man she 'd seen far too much of when she 'd worked in Milan for International Models . |
| 16 | But with the memory of that wild surge of reaction last night , the devouring way Roman had kissed her , she 'd felt far more sensitive on the subject than necessary . |
| 17 | The porter had stayed almost half an hour — presumably dismantling and re-constructing a perfectly healthy tap — and by the time he had left , it was true , she 'd felt far more relaxed . |
| 18 | What you did went far beyond what can be acceptable to the rule of law . |
| 19 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 20 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 21 | But there was more to it than that : as the only daughter and elder sister to Nathan and Matthew , she had become far more involved in the running of the household , and had been witness to her mother 's frequent pregnancies , miscarriages and confinements . |
| 22 | Sometimes Scarlet had a brief insight into her own attitudes to other people and would realize that she had suffered far more pain on their behalf than was necessary and that no one would ever thank her for it : this made her feel useless and extremely tired . |
| 23 | Loretta decided she had gone far enough , and used the beginning of a farm track to turn the car in . |
| 24 | The office staff and the surgeons used the list as a pool of work they would dip into — indeed a surgeon might deliberately choose a recent addition to the list over someone who had waited far longer on the grounds of greater urgency … |
| 25 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 26 | His height he tended to disguise with a slight stoop , and he made no secret of his contempt for the desk-bound staffs who had mushroomed far behind the lines . |
| 27 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 28 | Above all she wanted to slide far away from Robert Urquhart . |
| 29 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 30 | ‘ I had already decided that we 'd spent far too long apart . |