Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] go [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 6 | Course made good , means sailing where you want to go as effectively as possible . |
| 7 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 8 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
| 9 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 10 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 11 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 12 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 13 | Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style . |
| 14 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 17 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 18 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 19 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 22 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 23 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 24 | He had gone as far as he could go . |