Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design .
2 Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father .
3 " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? "
4 I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church .
5 You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ .
6 And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ?
7 Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success .
8 If you go away then as soon as you know that you 're going we 'll send off registration for Bishop Challener and that 's it and we can send off a year 's a year 's umm fees in advance ca n't we ?
9 And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’
10 That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen .
11 But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing .
12 In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ .
13 Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users .
14 I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’
15 But no one went as far as the teacher quoted by Len Masterman .
16 One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ .
17 But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ?
18 We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation .
19 Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis .
20 that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went
21 And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge .
22 Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’
23 Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages .
24 They go fast enough as it is , ’ said one local certainly not averse to the many material improvements in his lifestyle compared to that of his parents without electricity and all that that facilitates .
25 Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 .
26 They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules .
27 They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin .
28 Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project .
29 Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals .
30 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 .
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