Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 18 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 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 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 24 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 25 | 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 . |