Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] as far as the " in BNC.
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1 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
2 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
3 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
4 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
5 | Last year , Derek sold some 1,500 from his farm — on Christmas Eve the queue stretched out as far as the main road . |