Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 2 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 3 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 4 | The idea of dying did n't worry him , so long as he went out with a bang . |
| 5 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 6 | All the same Schneidau 's argument is just and illuminating , so far as it goes . |
| 7 | An image is a pictorial understanding of a kind which is true so far as it goes , but which falls short of full rational clarity , and must eventually be superseded by a concept . |
| 8 | The point about ought and is , so far as it goes , does have some force . |
| 9 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 10 | it is a good theory so far as it goes . |
| 11 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 12 | The former case , so far as it goes , is undoubtedly consistent with his thesis ; but it is very briefly reported , without any indication of the arguments advanced or cases cited , and the conclusion is encapsulated in one brief sentence . |
| 13 | ‘ None , your Grace , so far as it goes . |
| 14 | The Government 's pledge on price protection has also been honoured , so far as it goes . |
| 15 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 16 | He executed a declaration of abdication of the throne for himself and his descendants and this declaration was duly rendered effective , so far as it went , by His Majesty 's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 which amended the Act of Settlement accordingly . |
| 17 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |