Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 3 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 4 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 5 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 6 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 7 | In this example , Ricci goes much further than evaluating her daughter 's performance . |
| 8 | Making job descriptions an integral part of the daily work arrangements however , goes much further than using it to identify what sort of person you want to recruit . |
| 9 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 10 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 11 | This can be seen most clearly when considering their behaviour . |
| 12 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 13 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 14 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 15 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 16 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 17 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 18 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 19 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 20 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 21 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 22 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
| 23 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 24 | What heartened as well as chastened me about the letter was his wish to see more of my writing . |
| 25 | It was really better to be like Paul Lane , about as rootless as you could be , moving easily around as served your ambition and owing no one anything . |
| 26 | The last two examples , I 'm actually going to ask you to do tonight rather than keep you here this evening . |
| 27 | ‘ I got as far as unpacking my summer wear … ! ! ’ |
| 28 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 29 | Even in her dazed and painful state his imperious , if not to say imperial manner amused as well as annoyed her . |
| 30 | Thus the parents can reward more often than punish which will offset any of the avoidance side-effects of punishment that the restraint method may create . |