Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] go [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
2 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
3 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
4 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
5 | Kip Bertram went so far as to describe the letter as ‘ venomous ’ , and Norman Smith , managing director of Total Book Distribution , said it was ‘ insulting and naive ’ . |
6 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
7 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
8 | Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence . |
9 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
10 | In one of her baffling letters Herta goes so far as to question the legality of the work we are doing here . |