Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far [subord] " 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 feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 5 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 8 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 18 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 19 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 20 | And you need done as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 21 | Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ? |
| 22 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 23 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 24 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 25 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 26 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 27 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 28 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 29 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 30 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |