Example sentences of "far as [pron] could go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the dinghy as far as we could go , right up near to the lock gates . |
| 2 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 9 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |