Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] go [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny turned to go back home as usual . |
| 2 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
| 3 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 4 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 7 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 8 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |