Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 32 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 33 | She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them . |
| 34 | But they stopped before the bridge and Sam told the groom he could go home again and meet them back in the centre of the town in two hours . |
| 35 | ‘ Maybe I could go home tomorrow and come back on Sunday . ’ |
| 36 | I could go much faster than they could . |
| 37 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 38 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |
| 39 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 40 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |
| 41 | She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her |
| 42 | In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'd go again today if it did n't mean waiting in line till a month from Monday , ’ said USA Today reviewer Mike Clark . |
| 44 | Tape Worm : I 'm normally very polite and hardly swear , but I 'd go so far as to say that Tape Worm is one ugly ( Censored ! — Ed ) . |
| 45 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 46 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 47 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say that you 're wasting your time even to think of applying for custody . ’ |
| 49 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 50 | ‘ In fact , I 'd go as far as to say you 've got the worst case of it I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 51 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 52 | When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this . |
| 53 | Anyone looking for an exotic finish to a room need go no further than Ravissant . |
| 54 | To find out how it affects Scottish farmers one need go no further than my constituency . |
| 55 | I may go even further than the Long Drive , he 'd said . |
| 56 | We may go so far as to suggest that each reader has a " stylistic competence " , analogous to and additional to the " linguistic competence " shared ( according to Chomsky ) by all native speakers of a language . |
| 57 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
| 58 | No I do n't think so , I think there 's a difference because the other excesses were on the peasants ' part now it 's okay whatever the peasants did , you know , it 's not terrible it 's , it 's fine to let the peasants do that , and also erm into the war period the peasants are gon na but must n't do it , this time it 's like okay , now we 're the party that 's saying let's go as far as we can . |
| 59 | Let's go now rather than tomorrow c . |
| 60 | but when the weather improves we shall , we shall go as far as Harrendle on the bus |