Example sentences of "get as far " in BNC.
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| 31 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 32 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 33 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 34 | I have n't actually been in to , I 've only ever got as far as the . |
| 35 | Oh well I have n't got as far as that because I |
| 36 | Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ? |
| 37 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 38 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The radiation that strikes the Earth — or at least gets as far as the outer atmosphere — is of two main kinds . |
| 41 | Gets as far as this : Migration of Sperms : ‘ Approximately 400 million sperms are present in each ejaculation … if only 10 per cent of the sperms reach the cervical canal a total of approximately 40 million sperms will have reached this favourable haven . |
| 42 | If the model only gets as far as being on its side and then starts to fall , apply opposite lateral cyclic to roll out and back stick to recover . |
| 43 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 44 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 45 | Neither is it that tonics are not requested ; large numbers of people get as far as the doctor 's surgery to complain of tiredness , lethargy and mild depression , and even larger numbers go straight to the chemist . |
| 46 | Just get as far away from here as possible ! ’ |
| 47 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 48 | and get as far as we can and break off about half past twelve for an hour |
| 49 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 50 | Well I expect Jamie can , get as much , get as far as a button your blouse . |
| 51 | I said ooh cos I said when I come here we 're always so busy I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen do n't I ? |
| 52 | For me , the whole point of acting is using different aspects of yourself , and getting as far away from yourself as you can . |
| 53 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 54 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 55 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 56 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 57 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 60 | I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’ |