Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 2 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 3 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 4 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 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 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 9 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 15 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 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 | ‘ I had n't thought as far as that , ’ she said , quivering . |
| 18 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 19 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 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 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |
| 22 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 23 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 24 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 28 | Oh well I have n't got as far as that because I |