Example sentences of "go as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity . |
| 2 | Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father . |
| 3 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 4 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | This time he was determined to go as straight as an arrow aimed at Saint Sebastian to the core of the problem , as he saw it . |
| 7 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |
| 8 | Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right . |
| 9 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 10 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 11 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 12 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 13 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 14 | His face went as hard as the bronze , it resembled and his eyes said things I pretended not to hear . |
| 15 | With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | But no one went as far as the teacher quoted by Len Masterman . |
| 18 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 19 | Nomes sometimes went as far as the airport . |
| 20 | Even from the beginning she had lain naked and adoring under the moon and Fenna could come and go as easily as the clouds did . |
| 21 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 22 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 23 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 24 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll go as far as the village , ’ Sharpe said . |
| 26 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 27 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 28 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 29 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 30 | This was in itself , however , of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension , and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns . |