Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 3 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 4 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 5 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 6 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 7 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 8 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 9 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 10 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 11 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 12 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 13 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 16 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 17 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 18 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 19 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 20 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 21 | ‘ I had n't thought as far as that , ’ she said , quivering . |
| 22 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 23 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 24 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |