Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 2 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 3 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 4 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 5 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 6 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 7 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 8 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 11 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 12 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 13 | It should be clear from what I have said so far that the police national computer is exactly that — for use by the police in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | For the surgery being considered here , often called ‘ conversion surgery ’ , involves one or more of several procedures which aim to transform as far as is possible the subject 's anatomy so that it approximates that of a member of the preferred sex . |
| 15 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 16 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 17 | ( 6 ) Dotted instead of full lines give another range of meaning if you want to sub-divide as far as that . |
| 18 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Here above all he or she has to organize as far as possible a staff consensus , to present it to the governors and to explain any requests for modification back to the staff — and then if necessary to carry out the modification . |
| 22 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
| 25 | Do n't be impatient , assimilate the knowledge and learning you 've gained so far and then when the time is right you will coast forward even faster . |
| 26 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 27 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |