Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] far as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final . |
| 2 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 3 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 4 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 5 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 6 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 7 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 8 | Could only get as far as the kitchen . |
| 9 | Although the reach of the top horn only extends as far as the 14th fret ( which could spell balance problems given such a long neck ) the body does have a pronounced lower bout , with the face-mounted bridge situated quite well back ; this relocated mass helps to preclude potential neck-heaviness . |
| 10 | Just got as far as the door . |
| 11 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 12 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 13 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 14 | Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way . |
| 15 | I have n't actually been in to , I 've only ever got as far as the . |
| 16 | Whether we in this country could ever get as far as the Americans have done , remains to be seen . |
| 17 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 18 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 19 | erm we really got as far as the neutrons and the protons . |
| 20 | That 's all that really matters as far as the law is concerned . |
| 21 | Jacques Boussard , the leading French historian of the Angevin Empire , felt confident enough to write that Henry 's authority now extended as far as the Mediterranean ! |
| 22 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 23 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 24 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 25 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 26 | Some swim into the Baltic , others pass through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and may even travel as far as the Black Sea . |
| 27 | The radiation that strikes the Earth — or at least gets as far as the outer atmosphere — is of two main kinds . |
| 28 | Nomes sometimes went as far as the airport . |
| 29 | I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | I never got as far as the meat inspector , actually … just saw one of the slaughtermen " |