Example sentences of "[adv] as far as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the pattern is straight and gently feed it down as far as it will go . |
| 2 | Great as far as it goes , but where are the mighty affirmations of life that soul once was ? |
| 3 | ‘ Umm , I just turn my guitar up as far as it will go , ’ explains the puzzled axe hero . |
| 4 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 5 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 6 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 7 | The man , who had winched his seat back as far as it would go , lay beside her , staring up through the sunroof at the sky which was now a pure and empty blue . |
| 8 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |
| 9 | He slipped the matchbox under the netting and pushed it back as far as it would go . |
| 10 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
| 11 | It 's a long road from here to there — at least as far as it was from there to here via Jamaica ! |
| 12 | Merely pushing the lever forwards as far as it will go is not enough because the lock may be very stiff . |
| 13 | When the body is bent forward as far as it will go , the leg muscles are held tense and the position maintained for a count of ten . |
| 14 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |
| 15 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |