Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " 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 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to go there anyway and I saw it . |
| 4 | I wanted to go more often but did n't feel confident enough to do so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 7 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 8 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 9 | so you had to go right round and come down the mud down |
| 10 | We wanted to go away together and I desperately needed a rest . |
| 11 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ernie 's companions seemed to think he 'd gone far enough and were trying to distract his attention when a newcomer pushed his way into the group . |
| 16 | Henry seemed to feel he 'd gone far enough and backed off . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 19 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 20 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 21 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 22 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 23 | 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 . |