Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [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 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 .
3 Oh it 's going , ooh , it went out actually just as we went over a bump
4 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 .
5 Three more went back as far as Bronze Age Greece — amethyst , onyx and rock-crystal .
6 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 .
7 The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century .
8 erm that went about as well as the first maths one .
9 Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time .
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