Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far as " 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 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 11 | And you need done as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 12 | Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 16 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 17 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 22 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 23 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 24 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 25 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 26 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 27 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 28 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 29 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 30 | He had gone as far as he could go . |