Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 2 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 3 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 4 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 5 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 6 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 7 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 8 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 9 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 10 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 11 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 12 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 13 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 14 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 15 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 16 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 17 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 18 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 19 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 20 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 21 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 22 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 23 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 24 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 25 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 28 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 29 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 30 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |