Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] 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 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
5 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
10 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
11 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
12 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
13 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
14 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
15 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
16 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
17 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 ) . |
23 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
24 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
25 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
28 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
29 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
30 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |