Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] far as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 2 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 3 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 4 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
| 5 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 6 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 7 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 8 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 9 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 10 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 11 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 12 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 13 | The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby . |