Example sentences of "had gone [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 2 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 3 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 4 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 5 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 6 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 7 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 8 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 9 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 10 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 11 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 12 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 13 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 14 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 15 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 16 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 17 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 18 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |