Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 2 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 3 | He has ventured as far afield as Cathay and Lustria and has aided armies both human and High Elf against the forces of evil . |
| 4 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |
| 5 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 6 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 7 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 8 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 10 | He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School . |
| 11 | By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames . |