Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [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 decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence .
4 It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this .
5 Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing .
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 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 .
12 By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus .
13 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 .
14 Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller .
15 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 .
16 They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it .
17 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 .
18 Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco .
19 North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras .
20 He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to .
21 She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum .
22 He had gone as far as he could go .
23 He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship .
24 Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable .
25 He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School .
26 By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames .
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