Example sentences of "how [adv] [pron] could go " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 2 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 3 | They still employed enough hired and expensive help to negotiate for them , but with instructions how far they could go . |
| 4 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 5 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 6 | He seemed intent now on pushing to see how far he could go and she appeared willing to give way in everything in order to pacify . |
| 7 | Bobet was a cyclist who knew just how far he could go before digging deep into his reserves . |
| 8 | In being who he was : that was his vocation , and discovering how far he could go and even , fatally , what he could get away with . |
| 9 | Dobson was an expert at knowing just how far he could go without actually breaking the law . |
| 10 | I always wanted to get out and practise , to see how far I could go . |
| 11 | I knew you wanted to see how far you could go . ’ |