Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 3 | I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | I never got as far as his nose . |
| 5 | I never got as far as the meat inspector , actually … just saw one of the slaughtermen " |
| 6 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 7 | In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz . |
| 8 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 9 | erm we really got as far as the neutrons and the protons . |
| 10 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 11 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 12 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 13 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |
| 14 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 15 | Nay , they even go so far as to lay odds that before Christmas he lands a force in England or Ireland . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nik Cohn , that indefatigable chronicler of popular culture , set out to walk Broadway in its entirety — but he only got as far as 42nd Street . |
| 18 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 19 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 20 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 21 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |
| 22 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 23 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 24 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 25 | But he never went so far as to say that his intention was to qualify for legal aid , the court said . |