Example sentences of "far as [pers pn] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as we went last night ? |
| 2 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 3 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 4 | He executed a declaration of abdication of the throne for himself and his descendants and this declaration was duly rendered effective , so far as it went , by His Majesty 's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which amended the Act of Settlement accordingly . |
| 5 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
| 6 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |
| 7 | As far as it went . |
| 8 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 9 | It was a pleasure — as far as it went . |
| 10 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 11 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 12 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |