Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
2 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
3 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
4 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
5 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
6 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
7 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
8 | However , even if bus networks have not declined as markedly as has , say , the rail network , frequency of services has usually declined and fares have increased . |
9 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
10 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
11 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
12 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
13 | This makes sense : war and politics were perceived by lay participants as subject to supernatural interventions that could be magically invoked as well as interpreted — hence the important role of churchmen and their rituals in these areas of public contestation and conflict , for instance in not just the retrospective presentation but the preliminary " staging " of battles as Judgements of God . |
14 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
15 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
16 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |