Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 2 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 3 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 4 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 5 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 7 | He came forward warily and took the coin she offered and then he went off to one of the stables to fetch the horse and cart . |
| 8 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 9 | Henry Erskine once remarked of a Scottish judge and freeholder that ‘ he was first my enemy , when I came into power he was my great friend , when I went out he turned cool again & left off cultivating me , in that state we now remain , but I make no doubts were I in again , I should have him back again' . |
| 10 | Pausing at the door he turned once more and extended the middle finger of his right hand towards the bed . |
| 11 | He nodded once more and tried to remember that this was dammit , the British embassy . |
| 12 | But he nodded more forcibly and beckoned again . |
| 13 | He landed down wind ( not that there was much wind ) , but he landed very carefully and taxied with his tail up to where I was standing , roughly about halfway or a little more up the runway . |
| 14 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 15 | He returned shortly afterwards but gave no indication to anyone of who had phoned . |
| 16 | Should he lean forward passionately and denounce things ? |
| 17 | He stumped savagely downstairs and picked up the receiver . |
| 18 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 19 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 20 | He went even further and discussed how the general layout of the houses could deter crime . |
| 21 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 22 | He went as far as to say that the universities were not convinced of the value of this ‘ experiment ’ and that there were fundamental defects in the way it was being implemented . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 24 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 25 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 27 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 28 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that Britain 's justice system had been badly bruised by the Government 's failure in this respect . |
| 29 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 30 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |