Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] went [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other !
2 Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’
3 President Bani Sadr of Iran said that his country was unwilling to respond , with the inevitable consequence that Iraq simply went ahead unilaterally and then cut the experiment short .
4 Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest .
5 Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’
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