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 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 10 | 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 . |