Example sentences of "the [noun] went so [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
2 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , radicals like William Walwyn and Gerrard Winstanley began to express doubts about the doctrine of hell , while the Ranters went so far as to deny the existence of sin , and some early English Unitarians , such as John Bidle , attacked the doctrine of the trinity and denied Christ 's divinity . |
3 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
4 | The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired . |
5 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |