Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness . |
| 4 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 5 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 6 | ‘ You could wear this Indian bedspread as a shawl , ’ suggested Robina , and even went so far as pull it off the bed and advance towards Penelope with it . |
| 7 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 8 | How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane . |