Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 2 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 3 | ‘ What I wish , ’ she said , ‘ is to get this visit to wherever we 're going over with as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 4 | He delayed going upstairs for as long as possible , partly in a hopeless pretense of getting the papers finished with , and partly to avoid Sara . |
| 5 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 6 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 7 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 8 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |