Example sentences of "only got [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 2 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 3 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 7 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 8 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |