Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pers pn] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 2 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 3 | The idea of dying did n't worry him , so long as he went out with a bang . |
| 4 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 5 | He executed a declaration of abdication of the throne for himself and his descendants and this declaration was duly rendered effective , so far as it went , by His Majesty 's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which amended the Act of Settlement accordingly . |
| 6 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 7 | His was a hectic life , becoming more so as it went on . |
| 8 | The chimney was a traditional one for the Lake District ; a straight , dry-stone cylinder tapering slightly inside as it went up . |
| 9 | She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person . |
| 10 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 11 | As far as we went last night ? |
| 12 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 13 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 14 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
| 15 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |
| 16 | As far as it went . |
| 17 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 18 | It was a pleasure — as far as it went . |
| 19 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 20 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 21 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 22 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 23 | ‘ Two workmen saw it , luckily , and we all three got there just as you went off , like . |
| 24 | Oh it 's going , ooh , it went out actually just as we went over a bump |