Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 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 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 4 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 5 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 6 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 7 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 10 | 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 . |