Example sentences of "[pers pn] go as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 2 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 3 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 7 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 8 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 9 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |
| 10 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 11 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 12 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 13 | He went as silently as he could up the drive and peered into the garage . |
| 14 | He went as far as to say that the universities were not convinced of the value of this ‘ experiment ’ and that there were fundamental defects in the way it was being implemented . |
| 15 | But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’ |