Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like .
2 Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design .
3 The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her .
4 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 .
5 She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’
6 They were gone as suddenly as they had come .
7 And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge .
8 Work within your marks , leave a small lump in the middle at the front and go as deep as you feel is necessary .
9 I really think that 's what has made the business stay , and go as far as it has .
10 That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen .
11 It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again .
12 The bill put forward by President Bush in May 1989 went as far as he thought wise in loading new burdens on to industry .
13 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
14 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
15 Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’
16 But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like .
17 They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions .
18 She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite .
19 However , with the Land Rover we can go as far as you want . ’
20 She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her
21 Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages .
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