Example sentences of "had [verb] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 2 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 3 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 4 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 5 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 6 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 9 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 10 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 11 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 12 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 13 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 14 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 15 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 19 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 22 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 23 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 24 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 25 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 26 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 27 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 28 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 29 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 30 | 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 . |