Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 2 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 3 | He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business . |
| 4 | But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone . |
| 5 | Try and get that going as soon as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that . |
| 7 | — as soon as you are drilling basic questions , use them to keep a given conversation item going as long as possible . |
| 8 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 9 | Course made good , means sailing where you want to go as effectively as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 11 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 12 | Both attempt to go as fast as possible . |
| 13 | Did you have to go as far as that ? |
| 14 | While it may not be reasonable to go as far as official opinion , there was some truth in Stalin 's retrospective judgement at the 12th Party Congress : |
| 15 | Otherwise , the fieldwork strategy in large-scale quantitative studies must be broadly the same as that of Labov : we need to go as far as possible in obtaining casual styles from informants and to develop ways of distinguishing styles on a continuum from ‘ careful ’ to ‘ casual ’ style . |
| 16 | It is not company policy to go as far as this . ’ |
| 17 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 18 | These are the people who ensure that the week-long adventure goes as smoothly as possible for children such as Amelia . |
| 19 | Benny turned to go back home as usual . |
| 20 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
| 21 | True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual . |
| 22 | Dictionaries go on just as usual — at present EFL ones — in the making of which I gather Orlando 's best friend 's father is also engaged . |
| 23 | No other state went so far as this ; but then none needed to , for none started from the same position of isolation and estrangement from the outside world . |
| 24 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 25 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 26 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 27 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 28 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 29 | At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic . |
| 30 | John Piper had seen the Diaghilev Ballet in his twenties , had gone as often as possible because ‘ the excitement — the tinge of exultation — in the dancing married to modern music and modern art , worked in my blood and bones . ’ |