Example sentences of "as far [conj] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tugging the cuffs down over his hands as far as they would go , he worked his cuffed wrists down his back and round his behind . |
| 2 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 3 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 4 | He wanted to run his fingers up as far as they would go , but he remained motionless , like a frozen frame in a black and white film . |
| 5 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 6 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 7 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 8 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 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 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 12 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 13 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 14 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 15 | As far as they could tell , it was the only thing which existed here , wherever " here " was , Everything else was snow ; the white plain . |
| 16 | As far as they could tell , the writing , by a ballpoint , was Egan 's . |
| 17 | His stretched knuckles tapped as far as they could reach . |
| 18 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
| 19 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 20 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 21 | But his policy positions , as far as they can be pinned down , seem designed to offend almost everybody . |
| 22 | Government legislation has sharply reduced the scope for this , but a number of councils are still interested in developing it as far as they can . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | When the affected characters get to the east wall ( or as far as they can go in that direction if other characters stop them ) , they are attacked . |
| 25 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 26 | Be careful to spread the legs , not as far as they can go , but only as far as is comfortable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is also leading edge research taking place into pushing the limits of compression as far as they can possibly go . |
| 29 | I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’ |