Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] far [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |
| 2 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 3 | Plenty of publicity shots of her mother singing , I suppose , plus holiday snaps and studio poses of all the clan , backtracking as far along the time-lines as the parvenu art of photography can carry us . |
| 4 | I was adamant then that I would n't have it , but the idea of actually getting this far with a baby — well , I did n't want to jinx it by even thinking too much about it . |
| 5 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 6 | The decision caused consternation on both sides of the House , because it confirmed what many people feared : that Britain was slipping too far behind the superpowers ; and was , indeed , losing a measure of her sovereignty . |
| 7 | The discipline of the credit markets is meant to keep states from straying too far from the spirit of it . |
| 8 | G has completely misjudged the approach by sailing too far above the layline . |
| 9 | This sound mingles with the similar nautical tones of fog-horns as ships enter the Humber Estuary and can be almost indistinguishable from them when carrying so far through a mist . |
| 10 | Engels re-echoes The German Ideology in showing that far from the State being the repository of justice , it is the repository of exploitation , but here he does this by use of genuine anthropological materials . |
| 11 | He should beware of presuming too far on the patience of the Prince of Gwynedd . ’ |
| 12 | Fgf-4 RNA is localized to the posterior half of the AER , and the affinity of FGF-4 protein for extracellular matrix components presumably prevents it from diffusing very far from the cells that secrete it . |