Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 8 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 9 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 10 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 11 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 12 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 13 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 14 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 15 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 16 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 17 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 18 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 19 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 20 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 21 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 22 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 23 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 24 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 25 | I have n't actually been in to , I 've only ever got as far as the . |
| 26 | However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach . |
| 27 | Measurement of h-parameters demands that the input terminals are effectively open circuit with respect to signals while the output terminals are effectively short circuited as far as signals are concerned . |
| 28 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 29 | However , before then , in 1901 , the first batch of electrically driven trams were introduced in Chiswick , with a service running from Shepherd 's Bush to Kew Bridge and later extended as far as Hampton Court . |
| 30 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |