Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 2 | If the theory is correct , trials involving HIV infected patients could go ahead as early as next year . |
| 3 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 4 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 5 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 6 | Every night in the fucking raunchiest games , it does n't matter if your a girl , if your girl and do n't want to play fine , if your girl and you wan na play well , quite like the bloke sort of thing you know , there was no , nothing er , no given , the fact that your a female , and they used to go in as hardly anybody half the time , erm , indoor rugby and shit like that |
| 7 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 8 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 9 | Midland Pensions are unit linked plans and since the value of units can go down as well as up it is possible that the value may fall below that of the original investment . |
| 10 | Your working life can go back as far as April 1936 , but not further . |