Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their return to the beach , an hour 's flashing of torches was needed to catch the attention of the landing craft crews who had withdrawn too far from the beach according to one report . |
| 2 | was a fish that had jumped too far from the water . |
| 3 | He stopped all experimentation at this stage to examine the information he had gathered so far . |
| 4 | Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case . |
| 5 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 6 | In a Bundestag debate on the Rabta affair [ see pp. 36385 ; 36411 ] on Jan. 18 , 1989 , Schäuble , then Head of the Federal Chancellery , announced that the federal government had received as far back as August 1987 information that Imhausen-Chemie , a West German company , had been involved in the construction in Libya , of a plant deemed by United States intelligence to be capable of manufacturing chemical weapons . |
| 7 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 8 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 9 | By the time the family had become aware of it , it had travelled too far south . |
| 10 | By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky . |
| 11 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 12 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 13 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 14 | He had come that far from Thirkett after all . |
| 15 | But Joyce had come too far in his pilgrimage to turn back . |
| 16 | Adam pulled up and asked directions , and having found out he had come too far , he drove back to the IFA Motorenwerk and turned right . |
| 17 | It seemed to him that he had come so far in discovering so much about his problem but was unable to bring about any substantial change . |
| 18 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 19 | Because of the Swamp they had come so far south that they must now be at least on a level with the path where they had fought with the sturdy beggars although the northern ride must lie between them and it . |
| 20 | But crazed with lust , it rode him on : he had come so far , and bunching up his shirt . |
| 21 | The harbour was crammed with the great prahus which we had come so far for , but our attempts to communicate with the captains and crewmen were discouraging . |
| 22 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 23 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 24 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 25 | Dana could be right — she did find it difficult to get friendly with any of the men she had met so far , but that did n't mean she never would . |
| 26 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 27 | It was the biggest house he had seen so far in the village . |
| 28 | This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far . |
| 29 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 30 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |