Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] could go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
| 2 | She saw that she must do exactly that — run away from him as he had suggested , but as far away as she could go ! |
| 3 | As quickly as she could go , Deborah stepped along it . |
| 4 | I took the dinghy as far as we could go , right up near to the lock gates . |
| 5 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 6 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 7 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 8 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 9 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 10 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 11 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 12 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 13 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 14 | They rode back up the valley as fast as they could go . |
| 15 | Her first impulse was to run away , to run blindly anywhere , as fast as she could go , because the cry quite certainly came from the direction in which the dilapidated signpost was pointing — and that signpost pointed to DANGER . |
| 16 | She raced down the slope as fast as she could go . |
| 17 | Heedless of what noise she made now , she flew along the path as fast as she could go . |
| 18 | Not giving her resolve time to weaken , she slipped off her shoes and hurtled up the alley as fast as she could go . |
| 19 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 20 | Gabriel shook his head furiously ; then hurried back to the Mason as fast as he could go without spilling the liquor . |
| 21 | Still the hired spider in the back clucked and unwedged himself as fast as he could to go and check his beloved bits and pieces by touch . |
| 22 | Quinquennial , institutional review visits became more prominent , and Hornby commented : ‘ I shoved this as hard as I could go ’ . |
| 23 | Dropping the Brownie Annual , Jenny ran up the dale alongside the river as hard as she could go . |
| 24 | A water fountain and it used to have little cups all the way round as you could go and have a drink . |