Example sentences of "was [adv] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only , I wish I had ever shown some sign of affection ; I wish I had perhaps written to her — even if only a card ( and even though I was rather far down in the family hierarchy ) . |
| 2 | So much had happened so fast , and the man she loved was so far away . |
| 3 | After pipping Swedish pair Per-Ulrik Johansson and Fredrik Lindgren , by one shot , thanks to birdies at the last two holes , he said : ‘ I was so far away I just about saw the ball disappear . |
| 4 | ‘ We were offered a special school ’ says Mrs J , ‘ but it was so far away , we just could n't . ’ |
| 5 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 6 | We went upstairs — Rose called it the gods , because we were so near to heaven , I suppose , and the stage was so far away . ’ |
| 7 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 8 | because erm the North East was so far away I think they was |
| 9 | The interesting thing is that Lord Leverhulme , who was so far ahead of his contemporaries in so many ways , missed two essential elements in the situation . |
| 10 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 11 | Because he was so far ahead in his first year , he spent his time on other things . |
| 12 | This 46-year-old newcomer to federal politics from British Columbia was so far ahead of her colleagues that she seemed bound to win . |
| 13 | In fact , she was so far ahead of the majority on points that she could afford to let up a bit . |
| 14 | Well , she 's young yet , she thought , and that leg of his was so far forward the mare could easily make a mistake . |
| 15 | The match had reached full-time with the scores level at 15–15 , and when Gloucester hacked upfield after Bath had botched an attacking move in extra-time , Clarke , the Bath No 8 , was so far offside you almost needed a telescope to see him . |
| 16 | The third column , which she had reserved for telephone numbers , was so far entirely blank . |
| 17 | Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle . |
| 18 | He was so far under as to be very near coma . |
| 19 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 20 | It was obviously far more interesting to spend his time chatting up the local talent . |
| 21 | She was suddenly far too aware that they were alone and would n't be disturbed until morning , too aware that the man whose overpowering masculine strength filled the room was her husband and had certain rights , too aware that the last frail layer of her protective façade had been shattered forever when she had wept in his arms and let him comfort her . |
| 22 | The red tape always seems less voluminous the farther away from headquarters you are , and Fairbanks was apparently far enough away from both U.S. , and U.S.S.R. officialdom to make the approval possible . |
| 23 | Shock alone , since the older woman was physically far more powerful , rendered Hester helpless in the girl 's grip . |
| 24 | Conchis was away far too long for the excuse he had given . |
| 25 | It must have showed — or else Tom Russell was already far too skilled at reading her emotions — because his first words to her when they were seated in his red sports car were , ‘ Cat got your tongue ? ’ |
| 26 | She 'd taken an instant liking to Arnie 's new girlfriend , who was patently far more suited to him than she 'd ever been . |
| 27 | And yet this was somehow far more fun . |
| 28 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 29 | Charles Beadle , Beatrice 's neighbour , tells many stories of Modigliani , full of drink and drugs , quarrelling , when he was in the garden with Beatrice innocently discussing the plants ; of Modigliani walking in the cemetery because ‘ death was not far off ’ ( ‘ Would n't it be magnificent ’ , he said to Beadle , if we could contemplate our own skeletons ? ’ ) ; of Modigliani reciting Lautréamont beside the graves , hungry for drugs , suspecting all Beatrice 's male friends . |
| 30 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |