Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] far as " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | 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 . |
2 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
3 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
4 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
5 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
8 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
9 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
10 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
11 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
12 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
13 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
14 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
15 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
16 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
17 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
18 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |