Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 14 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 15 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 16 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 17 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 20 | 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 . |