Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 2 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 3 | What really matters is an attempt to limit a hypothesis , derived from a theory , and to see how far it can withstand rigorous testing . |
| 4 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 5 | Judging from early games in this country , and especially by the dreadful Leicester v England match , our referees are going by the book and will blow rucks and mauls dead far more quickly . |
| 6 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 7 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 8 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 9 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 10 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 11 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 12 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 13 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
| 14 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 15 | If we acknowledge the importance of respecting the child 's own ways of thinking , we need to find ways for that thinking to be expressed so that it can be reflected on , and to know how far doing this can also help learning . |
| 16 | The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests . |
| 17 | This is caused by the slow leaching of elements from the unstable early soda glasses , and has so far proved impossible to replicate . |
| 18 | This year 's best seller was Save The Earth by Jonathan Porritt which was published simultaneously in 17 countries in local languages and has so far sold more than 500,000 copies . |
| 19 | His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years . |
| 20 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 21 | The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation . |
| 22 | The ratio between the number of contracts in the two legs of a spread can be termed ‘ the spread ratio ’ ( denoted p ) , and has so far been unity . |
| 23 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 24 | It was flown by Benjamin , two days before Christmas 1991 , and has so far not shown signs of problems associated with the originals . |
| 25 | To me it looked like four sheets of Kleenex wiped in something unspeakable and stapled as far away from the fold as possible . |
| 26 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 27 | After some three months have passed it is often wise to conduct a full review of the new systems and to discover how far they have progressed . |
| 28 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 29 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 30 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |