Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] as far as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 2 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 3 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 4 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 5 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 6 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 7 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 8 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 9 | He pushed me as far as the trees and I seized a trailing branch . |