Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 2 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 3 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 4 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 5 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 8 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 9 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 10 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 11 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 12 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 13 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 14 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 15 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |