Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] get [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 2 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |