Example sentences of "as [pos pn] [noun] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | L.L. ’ The paper fell into pieces as my wife went to move it . |
| 2 | I picked out the Plough , and Orion , and the Pleiades , and of course the long splashing trail of the Milky Way , but that was as far as my knowledge went . |
| 3 | So it 's quite simple there 's no as far as my bit goes it is erm erm it 's just really the as I say , the roof design 's going to be used to design the roof for us . |
| 4 | As my pregnancy went on , I wondered whether the baby was a girl and If I should soon be in a mother/daughter relationship with my own child . |
| 5 | ‘ Cork is as deep as my roots go . |
| 6 | As its days go by , we are left to imagine for ourselves Sarah 's anxiety . |
| 7 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 8 | His parents had died when he was only ten , she recalled , and , as her heart went out to him , all enmity in her against him ended . |
| 9 | As her arms went around his neck he held her close . |
| 10 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 11 | She wanted to do that with him , yes , actually that ; she thought about it on and on and waited all week for the moment that might or might not come on Sunday morning in church when , as her cousins went first down the aisle , Tristram glanced in her direction and their eyes met and she was able to send a thought message which said to him , yes , I have n't forgotten . |
| 12 | Nell Anderson heard the splash as her raft went in , felt the five metre line slacken — then everything went wrong . |
| 13 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 14 | Oh , heavens , she thought as her cup went down on its saucer with a clink . |
| 15 | ‘ Three times , ’ he corrected softly , claiming her mouth , which opened to him without protest as her body went limp . |
| 16 | Suddenly , though , as her glance went without her really seeing , over the coat-and-hat fitment , she was jolted to a standstill . |
| 17 | That was as far as their success went , though . |
| 18 | They might even get half the wall up , but that 's as far as their capital goes . |
| 19 | So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these . |
| 20 | That 's as far as their authority goes . |
| 21 | As their carriage went by , Nora smiling , Sarah aghast , Flynn came riding over . |
| 22 | The call-up is drastic , with farmers leaving their crops , and businesses crippled as their men go . |
| 23 | IN THE past women rarely took jobs that involved getting their hands dirty , though in the war they kept the wheels of industry turning as their men went off to fight . |
| 24 | But , as far as his memory went , the black markings were new . |
| 25 | ‘ He wo n't be here yet , my dear , ’ said old Mr Clare , as his wife went to the front door for the tenth time . |
| 26 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 27 | The crash in her ear as his phone went down told her that he did mind — and very much too ! |
| 28 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 29 | In short , the origin of ‘ civilisation ’ might well be traced to man 's dawning understanding that the ‘ joie de vivre ’ experienced in childhood was being lost to the individual as his life went on . |
| 30 | His breath came short and as his head went under he could hear a faint grating of " gravel along the bottom . |