Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] far as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 2 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 3 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 4 | The ceremony of innocence was well drowned as far as they were concerned . |
| 5 | Blake and King begin to complain to each other that they are now wasting their time , since matters are settled so far as they are concerned . |
| 6 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |