Example sentences of "[adv] get [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 2 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 3 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose . |
| 6 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |