Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |
| 2 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 3 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 4 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 5 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 6 | I just wondered what progress you 'd made so far . |
| 7 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 8 | Alan Strachan seemed genuinely pleased with the work we 'd done so far . |
| 9 | It was a way of gaining Veronica 's confidence , Loretta thought , launching into a description of the work she 'd done so far . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd got that far . |
| 11 | sort of I mean if you 'd got that far |
| 12 | But before I 'd got very far with my story he shrugged his shoulders and said he did n't believe me . |
| 13 | ‘ I really do n't know how they thought we 'd got this far with that sort of thing , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 15 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 16 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 17 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 18 | Basically he 'd over indulged for too many years , to the point here even he realised he 'd gone too far . ’ |
| 19 | Adam went on looking at her , and her heart sank ; perhaps he 'd gone too far away in his mind to come back now . |
| 20 | Carey knew he 'd gone too far , but did n't care . |
| 21 | She 'd gone too far . |
| 22 | He 'd gone too far . |
| 23 | He riffled through the statements he 'd taken so far . |
| 24 | We 'd started out far too late , the weather was dreadful and the route unfamiliar . |
| 25 | We 'd started out far too late , the weather was dreadful and the route unfamiliar . |
| 26 | For example , he enjoyed seeing how far he could push the teachers — with concealed insults , fomenting riots , with prying into their private lives . |
| 27 | Misty cloud hung suspended not far above our heads while all we could hear was the trickle of water . |
| 28 | Then he started to see how far I had gone . |
| 29 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 30 | Israel 's negotiator , Itamar Rabinovitch , replied that he needed to hear in far greater detail what sort of peace Syria had in mind . |