Example sentences of "got [adv] far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 2 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 3 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 4 | I got as far as Birmingham , and then was called into the manager 's office . |
| 5 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 6 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 7 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 8 | At the Moravian Church we had fine Advent hymns , and once I got as far as Bunyan Meeting and heard theirs . |
| 9 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 10 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 11 | They got as far as Eldinhope at the head of St Mary 's Loch before the early November dark made following the tracks of even five hundred difficult ; and the Regent and Ramsay spent the night in that remote peel-tower of a Scott laird . |
| 12 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 13 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 14 | Lastly , I got as far as Mansfield last night , on my way to the Villa match . |
| 15 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 16 | ‘ If you got as far as Spargo 's you must have seen him go under the scaffolding . ’ |
| 17 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 18 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |