Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was only because of the Substitute 's presence that he added , ‘ At eleven o'clock , ’ and then turned away quickly because the technician was about to protest . |
| 7 | He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 8 | The theme music is faded up by the Grams Operator , and then faded down again after the final credit has been captured on tape . |
| 9 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 10 | Haslemere were playing some good football and almost went further ahead when Whiston headed just over . |
| 11 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 they polled disastrously , and actually did much worse than the new and untried Green Party concerned with environmental issues . |