Example sentences of "as far [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 2 | Elaborate funerary rites , strenuously promoted by the emergent trade of the undertakers , ensured that the social pretensions of the middle-class would extend as far into the next world as money could take them . |
| 3 | On the other hand an LM ‘ wave ’ is much smaller and by its nature causes much less turbulence but frequent repetition means that its wavelets still penetrate as far into the being of the patient . |
| 4 | The Diwan-i-am was as far into the Imperial Palace as most nobles would ever go . |
| 5 | He was just concerned with getting his nose as far into the brickwork as humanly possible . |
| 6 | Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn . |
| 7 | At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge . |
| 8 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 9 | Now use the four-arrow icon by holding down the left mouse button on the left pointing arrow , so as to make sure that you are as far to the left as possible . |
| 10 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
| 11 | Although a clash with the USSR was not considered a serious possibility until the late 1950s at the earliest , the British defence chiefs were arguing from April 1946 that the West 's ultimate aim should be to make a successful stand against a Soviet offensive as far to the east in Europe as practicable . |
| 12 | It 's not quite as far to the main school , cos the main school goes first and the prep school far , no there 's no up that road , it does n't go anywhere only to the school . |
| 13 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 14 | Behind him the landlord backed away as far along the bar as he could . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You lift your head and arch your back and , at the same time , you lift your right foot as far off the ground as you can ( while keeping your leg straight ) . |
| 17 | The buildings which line either side of the bridge descend as far below the street as they rise above it . |
| 18 | As a gourmet you certainly think of yourself as a product of high civilization , as far above the animal as a scholar or scientist is . |
| 19 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 20 | When the bomber surfaces , is n't the weight of the remaining wing and its two engines going to tilt it just as far in the other direction ? ’ |
| 21 | It is up to government to finance and provide it — but as far from the DTI as possible . |
| 22 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 23 | Lewis says he hopes that public pressure will force Bowe to fight him but after the euphoria of his win over Ruddock and the anticipation of becoming champion , he finds himself as far from the title as ever . |
| 24 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 25 | Over at the laibon 's engang they are bedded down behind their own thicket of thorn bushes , the cattle jammed together in a large boma and the goats in a smaller one right in the middle , as far from the athletic leopards as possible . |
| 26 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 27 | Then wander through the maze of streets leading into the old town on your right , to enter a world as far from the busy twentieth century as it is possible to be . |
| 28 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 29 | Well , it helps if you miss the fairways as far from the tee as Calcavecchia does — he finished 12th on Tour in driving distance with an average poke of almost 273 yards . |
| 30 | Mark Calcavecchia finished 14th in driving accuracy , but it helps if you miss the fairways as far from the tee as he does . |