Example sentences of "go [adv] as [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wants us to go over as often as we can and we try and and often as we can . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 4 | Flavia enjoyed the paper-games and , as she had said , the dancing ; she went nearly as often as she was asked ( Better not hang about too much in the house on the bay ) ; she enjoyed the company … moderately . |
| 5 | Nor have prices gone up as fast as it predicted . |
| 6 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 7 | When you are ready , go back as far as you want and we will pick it up from you . ’ |
| 8 | Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time . |
| 9 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |
| 10 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |