Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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1 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |