Example sentences of "going as " in BNC.

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1 The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words .
2 ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased .
3 He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go .
4 ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch .
5 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
6 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
7 Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity .
8 They are going as far as Collie .
9 She is now 24 years old and going as strong as ever .
10 Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users .
11 I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’
12 Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head .
13 It was silent , relentless , always going as hard as we could — I was virtually holding you clear as the blows , they felt like blows , pummelled you .
14 Next it was Hunt 's turn to be confused by the Australian Warwick Brown , who was driving his first race and who , practically without gears , was going as near zero as possible in the middle of the chicane .
15 When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like .
16 We were going as fast as we could . ’
17 What keeps the propliners of the world still going as viable business propositions is an item known as the bottom line .
18 Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph .
19 Joe took a walk along the Walworth Road , going as briskly as his stiff knee would allow .
20 As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains .
21 Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ?
22 This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all .
23 They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century .
24 going as two silhouettes above Warrington .
25 Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father .
26 And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
27 considering we 're going as far what about .
28 — as soon as you are drilling basic questions , use them to keep a given conversation item going as long as possible .
29 Things were going as badly as they could .
30 He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons .
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