Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before .
2 It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went .
3 Benny turned to go back home as usual .
4 The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package .
5 There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable .
6 Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution .
7 Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now .
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