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 . |