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

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1 ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased .
2 And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
3 But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone .
4 Things were going as badly as they could .
5 ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch .
6 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
7 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
8 When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like .
9 We were going as fast as we could . ’
10 I do n't think it is going as fast as it can .
11 ‘ Some people have suggested that people end up going as fast as 70mph , ’ said Mr Rose .
12 I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could
13 Try and get that going as soon as possible .
14 Joe took a walk along the Walworth Road , going as briskly as his stiff knee would allow .
15 He missed most of last season but has run well this term and was certainly going as strongly as anything before making a mistake at the third last in the Gold Cup .
16 It was silent , relentless , always going as hard as we could — I was virtually holding you clear as the blows , they felt like blows , pummelled you .
17 The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words .
18 He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go .
19 Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity .
20 They are going as far as Collie .
21 Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users .
22 I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’
23 Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head .
24 As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains .
25 Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ?
26 Her husband , Jack , used to sell fruit and vegetables from a horse and cart , going as far as the top of Baldersdale to find custom He was well known to all the elder members of the Hauxwell family , including Hannah 's mother and father .
27 He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons .
28 ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that .
29 WITHOUT going as far as opponents Ford , Vauxhall has said that airbags will be available as standard or as an option on most of its cars for 1994 .
30 And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is
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