Example sentences of "had not [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 2 | The visitors had not reached this far , preferring what was on offer in the town . |
| 3 | This was the most positive action he had yet taken in his conflicts with the king : even with Rufus he had not gone so far . |
| 4 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 5 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 6 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 7 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 8 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 9 | He had not got very far with Pilger 's list . |
| 10 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 11 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 12 | I had not walked so far for years . |