Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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1 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
2 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
3 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
4 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
5 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
6 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
7 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |