Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " 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 had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 6 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 7 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 8 | It should be clear from what I have said so far that the police national computer is exactly that — for use by the police in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Do n't be impatient , assimilate the knowledge and learning you 've gained so far and then when the time is right you will coast forward even faster . |
| 12 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 17 | And you need done as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 18 | We 're already eleven weeks into the year and er so my talk 's gon na centre on what we 've done so far and what we expect to happen . |
| 19 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 20 | Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | We have got this far and ignored a lot of work regarding issues of land rent and of the nature of capital 's relation with land as part of a general accumulation process . |
| 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 . |