Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 2 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 3 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
| 4 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 5 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 6 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 7 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 8 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 9 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 10 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 11 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 12 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 13 | Three more went back as far as Bronze Age Greece — amethyst , onyx and rock-crystal . |
| 14 | Fall down and crawl left under the wall , push the crate left onto the button and jump up through the roof , go up , left , up on the lift , right , and then fall down , go under the lift and go left to collect the object , go right , up on the lift , left under the wall , up through the roof , up , left , up on the lift , left , push the crate left onto the button , go left along the conveyor belt , go left and collect the battery , now go down as far as possible and enter the door to complete the level . |
| 15 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 16 | Overall during last year , this is to the end of , of November actually because fin figures are n't available for the end of the year , the reduction was four point nine percent , which compares with four point three percent in the previous year , so not only are they still going down , they 're actually going down slightly more than they were in the previous year and that must be encouraging . |