Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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1 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
4 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
5 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
6 | It was not like some of the valleys they had seen so far , sparsely vegetated and arid . |
7 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
8 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
9 | Because of the Swamp they had come so far south that they must now be at least on a level with the path where they had fought with the sturdy beggars although the northern ride must lie between them and it . |