Example sentences of "[was/were] go [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 2 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 3 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 4 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |
| 5 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | But Mr Lawson must have known that the timing of his words meant he was going much further than that . |
| 8 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |