Example sentences of "[verb] go as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This time he was determined to go as straight as an arrow aimed at Saint Sebastian to the core of the problem , as he saw it . |
2 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
3 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
4 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
5 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |