Example sentences of "[adv] got [adv] [adv] as [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 Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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