Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 33 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 36 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 37 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 40 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |