Example sentences of "get [adv] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 5 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 6 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 7 | But you 're not going to sound like Johnny unless you get as tight as hell , because Johnny 's a really tight guitar player . |
| 8 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 9 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 10 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 11 | I got as far as Birmingham , and then was called into the manager 's office . |
| 12 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 13 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 14 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 15 | At the Moravian Church we had fine Advent hymns , and once I got as far as Bunyan Meeting and heard theirs . |
| 16 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 17 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 18 | They got as far as Eldinhope at the head of St Mary 's Loch before the early November dark made following the tracks of even five hundred difficult ; and the Regent and Ramsay spent the night in that remote peel-tower of a Scott laird . |
| 19 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 20 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 21 | Lastly , I got as far as Mansfield last night , on my way to the Villa match . |
| 22 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 23 | ‘ If you got as far as Spargo 's you must have seen him go under the scaffolding . ’ |
| 24 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 25 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 26 | Erm you did n't actually get as far as ANNA I do n't think did you ? |
| 27 | The bill would be around £75 but , as Mary had said , the van would n't get as far as Calais in its present state . |
| 28 | Metro Saverstrip — only for journeys in West Yorkshire ; Metro DayRover — you can get as far as Manchester with this if you 're elderly or disabled and are permitted to take a dog or other authorized companion . |
| 29 | The 1991 season may turn out to be Jon Solly 's last serious crack at the 10,000m , but he is confident that he can get as far as Tokyo for the World Championships . |
| 30 | Initially they could get as far as point A , then only as far as point B , and then only as far as point C. Thus the circle of safety tends to diminish gradually . |