Example sentences of "[vb past] gone as far [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go .
2 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 .
3 Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller .
4 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 ) .
5 He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to .
6 He had gone as far as he could go .
7 JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further .
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