Example sentences of "[noun pl] went [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The way in which pressure was put on rebel backbenchers went too far . |
| 2 | His eyes went even harder . |
| 3 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 4 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 5 | The tentacles went momentarily as stiff as rods , hurling their various cargoes around the room , before bunching up protectively in front of the abused Eye . |
| 6 | Three , and Johnson 's knock-out punch — Pennant 's descriptions went as far into detail as Pennant wanted them to , and therefore they should be seen for what they are , not what they might have been : ‘ Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven . ’ |
| 7 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 8 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 9 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 10 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 11 | For some , however , the implications went much further : they appeared to remove altogether the need to regard reading as something new and potentially hard to master — as an activity to which children had to be introduced in carefully planned ways with thoughtfully constructed material . |
| 12 | She was a baby , and , in any case , he could not believe her feelings went very deep . |
| 13 | Some Reiver families went further afield , to America 's Wild West , where their cattle-rustling instincts were once more allowed full rein . |
| 14 | In fact , things went rather badly . |
| 15 | Things went rather better , though hardly perfectly , at Taunton Cider , purveyor of cider brands Red Rock , Diamond White and Dry Blackthorn . |
| 16 | ‘ Things went really well for me at Liverpool when I had John Barnes on one side and Ray Houghton on the other . |
| 17 | After that things went more smoothly for a few days , at least until the following Monday . |
| 18 | But it was Eadmer , with his keen eye for significant detail , who noted two points omitted by Osbern : he observed that , as the monks stood round the sufferer , each of the two groups spoke a language which the other could not understand ; and also he remarked that things went more smoothly after this event . |
| 19 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 20 | In theory its powers went no further . |
| 21 | Indeed , those officers went even further , suggesting that the very promotion of the idea with such patients might lead to an exacerbation of their illness . |
| 22 | With an equal number of doctors and town watchmen in the city , about 50 , no gas and only a few oil lamps illuminating the winding streets and alleys , the dark work of the Resurrectionists went ahead almost unhindered . |
| 23 | He warned that if some EC partners went ahead prematurely it would be a big mistake and Britain would not join them . |
| 24 | Both policies went ahead successfully . |
| 25 | Shaved partings went no further than the crown ( not in rows down the back of the head . ) |
| 26 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 27 | But sometimes , the Minister 's requests went too far . |
| 28 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 29 | But his talents went much further . |
| 30 | The National Trust , Friends of the Lake District and the National Parks have put into practice many of Green 's ideas , but the extent of his plans went even further than these and might well be worth looking at again . |