Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could .
3 She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car .
4 She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits .
5 By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go .
6 I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different .
7 Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller .
8 The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) .
9 He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to .
10 He had gone as far as he could go .
11 JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further .
12 The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me .
13 But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room .
14 They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it .
15 Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes .
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