Example sentences of "[adv] far [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings .
2 She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes .
3 Indeed the aim of the work was to demonstrate how far he had fallen from ancestral glories , in order that his successors might rectify his errors .
4 He had not realised quite how far he had walked from his hut .
5 How far he had come from the silks and blissful hedonic acid and joyspike of the upper habs of Trazior .
6 As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace .
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