Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] far as [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
3 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
4 By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’
5 Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking .
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 ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ .
8 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 .
9 In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters .
10 If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose .
11 There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments .
12 Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) .
13 You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned .
14 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 .
15 Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles .
16 We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else .
17 Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’
18 One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea .
19 That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture .
20 ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering .
24 Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me .
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