Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
2 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
3 ‘ Well you 'd better go home then and get your tomato ketchup . ’
4 ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ .
5 Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership .
6 Well not necessarily that , I mean , people buy when they go , I mean , I 've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze and er
7 You just go right ahead and forget her . ’
8 ‘ Oh baby , you just go right ahead and grab what you can when you can . ’
9 Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services .
10 He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff .
11 Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ?
12 It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence .
13 train , train never went back it always went so far and stop
14 Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech .
15 The police inspector told me : ‘ When he comes out he 'll probably go straight home and attack her . ’
16 But , erm , at the initial stage , the problem of order , really goes no further than asking a factual question .
17 No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’
18 However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes .
19 I 'm telling you now , come here to go upstairs now and get into your bed now !
20 John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’
21 Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) .
22 Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series .
23 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 .
24 Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may .
25 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 .
26 The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time .
27 But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one .
28 ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed .
29 ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ )
30 Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary .
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