Example sentences of "get as far " 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 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 6 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 7 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 8 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 16 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ha has anybody got as far as British Telecom shares , or British Gas , or electricity ? |
| 19 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 22 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 23 | Got as far as you could only use five hundred and forty odd or something was it |
| 24 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 25 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 26 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 27 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 28 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |