Example sentences of "[pers pn] went as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |
| 5 | He went as silently as he could up the drive and peered into the garage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |