Example sentences of "[adv] got [adv] far as [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
2 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |