Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
2 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
3 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
4 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
5 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
6 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
7 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |