Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] go [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 3 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 4 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 5 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 6 | I prefer to go up rather than down , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 9 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 10 | Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line . |
| 11 | Course made good , means sailing where you want to go as effectively as possible . |
| 12 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 13 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
| 14 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 15 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 16 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 17 | I said do you fancy going out tonight cos it 's The Bachelors who opened it |
| 18 | We would n't go in at a , I would n't go in at all , but Stuart 's mum used to live right opposite and she likes to go in occasionally cos she sees all her old friends , she do n't see them very often so she likes to go in and see all her old friends , otherwise I do n't |
| 19 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 20 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 21 | Noel Littlefair , the centre 's chairman , said : ‘ We want to go further afield than just Morningside . |
| 22 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 23 | Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style . |
| 24 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 25 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 28 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 29 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 30 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |