Example sentences of "[adv] got [adv] [adv] as " 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 15 | I have n't actually been in to , I 've only ever got as far as the . |
| 16 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 17 | Oh well I have n't got as far as that because I |
| 18 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 19 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 20 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 21 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |