Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] 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 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 5 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 6 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 7 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 12 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 13 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 14 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 15 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 16 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |