Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 2 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 3 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 4 | On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis . |
| 5 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 6 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 7 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 8 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 9 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 10 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 11 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 12 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 13 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 14 | Ruth got as far as the doorway and stopped dead . |
| 15 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 16 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 17 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 18 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 19 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 20 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 21 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 22 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 23 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 24 | Fish never sleep , you see , so if this one does , then that 's half the battle won as far as friend Polgar is concerned . ’ |
| 25 | The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology . |
| 26 | There was some congestion along the coast , compounded by the bottlenecks at Connah 's Quay , where Down fast and slow lines converged as far as Muspratt 's Sidings , and again at Llandulas . |
| 27 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 28 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 29 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 30 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |