Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership .
2 The king 's messenger caught up with him at Piacenza and they went together as far as Lyons .
3 Flavia enjoyed the paper-games and , as she had said , the dancing ; she went nearly as often as she was asked ( Better not hang about too much in the house on the bay ) ; she enjoyed the company … moderately .
4 The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows .
5 Oh it 's going , ooh , it went out actually just as we went over a bump
6 Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await .
7 Three more went back as far as Bronze Age Greece — amethyst , onyx and rock-crystal .
8 Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration .
9 The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century .
10 Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there .
11 All went well as far as Jersey , where the Met man proclaimed that thunderstorms to the south would shortly ground all light aircraft , pointing to the yellow and red swathe on his TV monitor .
12 Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women .
13 erm that went about as well as the first maths one .
14 Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time .
15 Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy .
16 Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back .
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