Example sentences of "go as far as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 4 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 5 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 6 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 7 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |
| 8 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 13 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 14 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 15 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 18 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 19 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 20 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 21 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 22 | I really think that 's what has made the business stay , and go as far as it has . |
| 23 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 24 | The bill put forward by President Bush in May 1989 went as far as he thought wise in loading new burdens on to industry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized . |
| 27 | However , with the Land Rover we can go as far as you want . ’ |