Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 2 | She had been drinking far too long , too much . |
| 3 | The next-door train had been left far behind . |
| 4 | When all these lights had been left far behind him and there was nothing but darkness on either side , Gazzer was still running . |
| 5 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 6 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |
| 7 | Brotherton & Harris ( 1988 ) point to increased difficulties in arranging back-up services and in discharging patients into community health services , if their hospital services had been provided far from their home locations . |
| 8 | He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear . |
| 9 | They had been driven far further north than he had expected . |
| 10 | Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " . |
| 11 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |