Example sentences of "get [adv] far as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 2 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 3 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 4 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 5 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 6 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 7 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
| 8 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 12 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 15 | If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose . |
| 16 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ I got as far as unpacking my summer wear … ! ! ’ |
| 18 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 19 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 20 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 21 | And this morning we got as far as did n't we ? |
| 22 | He resigned as Foreign Minister in late October , and secretarial staff got as far as clearing out his offices . |
| 23 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 24 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 25 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |