Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] as far as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that was quite extraordinary was what I found when I got as far as the back premises . |
| 2 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 3 | When I got as far as the door I dragged myself upright again , turned the handle , and lurched in . |
| 4 | I walked as far as the castle , where the tram tracks jut out towards the far bank of the Daugava River to show where the bridge was torn away from under them . |
| 5 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 6 | Last year , there were protracted negotiations for Tucson , Arizona-based direct rival Artisoft Inc to take over Performance , which got as far as the two signing a letter of intent to that effect . |
| 7 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
| 8 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 9 | Belorussia , in these new circumstances , began to raise territorial claims against Lithuania , which extended as far as the Lithuanian capital Vilnius . |
| 10 | She got as far as the bathroom and was half undressed when the doorbell rang , making her start . |
| 11 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
| 12 | She walked as far as the cafeteria on her ward — they told her to — and walking was a strange bouncing glide . |
| 13 | Ya'kub , known as Ecezade , who taught as far as the Iznik medrese , then became a kasabat kadi , eventually serving in Trabzon , from which , after the accession of Selim I ( 918/1512 ) , he became kadi in Selanik and then in Bursa , dying while in retirement from that post in 924/1518 . |
| 14 | But no one went as far as the teacher quoted by Len Masterman . |
| 15 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 16 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 17 | He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking . |
| 18 | He walked as far as the beaches and along the deserted sea front . |
| 19 | The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . " |
| 20 | The fact that it spread as far as the Mycenaean chiefdoms of Greece has sometimes been regarded as surprising . |