Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " 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 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 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 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 7 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 14 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 15 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 16 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 17 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 18 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 19 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 20 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 21 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 28 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 29 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 30 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |