Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 2 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 3 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 4 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 5 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 6 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 7 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 8 | They had monitored him as far as Poverty Row , then the Dream had upside-downed . |
| 9 | In the north , the German advance from East Prussia had taken them as far as Windau , near the Gulf of Riga . |