Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 2 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 3 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 4 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 5 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 6 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 7 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 8 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 9 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 10 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 11 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 12 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 13 | Fish never sleep , you see , so if this one does , then that 's half the battle won as far as friend Polgar is concerned . ’ |
| 14 | The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology . |
| 15 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 16 | Again perceptions of the value of these interviews differed , but one teacher went so far as to say that if it needed an appraisal to bring these advisers into the school then it was worth it . |
| 17 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 18 | Fittings should be removed and the body dismantled as far as possible including disconnecting from gas or electrical supply if possible . |
| 19 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 20 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 21 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 22 | Perceived as ‘ weak ’ and ‘ lonely ’ , one respondent went so far as to condemn raisins as ‘ embarrassing to be seen with in public ’ ! |
| 23 | In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon . |
| 24 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 27 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 28 | The figure was well below City estimates and one analyst went as far as to say that the detailed announcement ‘ deserves to set the standards for all ’ . |
| 29 | One writer went so far as to say that this construction ‘ flies in the face of the settled interpretation of this provision . ’ |
| 30 | Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable . |