Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.

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1 By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens .
2 By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible .
3 Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us .
4 In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent .
5 Now Malekith had gone too far .
6 Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth .
7 Fred had gone too far , had widened the discourse unfairly .
8 In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so .
9 By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes .
10 What lay behind Eadwine 's assault on the kingdom of Gwynedd is never made clear , but Aethelfrith had campaigned as far afield as Chester against the men of Powys and the Anglian attack on the north Britons was a continuing process .
11 The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package .
12 So Davout had got that far .
13 But Harding was rallying his faculties fast ; I was certain Lawrence had gone too far this time .
14 She felt that Maggie Gibbs had gone too far .
15 When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation .
16 Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution .
17 S. Kettering had gone too far .
18 But Joyce had come too far in his pilgrimage to turn back .
19 After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name .
20 Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now .
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