Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] gone [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the Prime Minister correctly said last night that Maastricht will be an important stage on the road to even closer European union , what does he say today to those of his right hon. Friends who say that he has already gone far enough down the road to political and monetary union and , in their words , we should stay where we are ? |
| 2 | The man who , in order to understand the inner world of a cannibal tribe , has partaken of the practice of cannibalism , has probably gone too far : he can never quite be one of his own folk again . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd better know — unofficially — that an alert for Tweed has now gone out secretly to our counter-espionage friends and certain police chiefs in Europe . |
| 5 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 6 | For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes . |
| 7 | And instead of just being here round the top , this has actually gone round here too , by the looks of it . |
| 8 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 9 | It was followed by a strange feeling of detachment , as if she 'd suddenly gone somewhere else . |
| 10 | I mean , we 'd just gone straight away well in fact , we fell asleep down here that 's why we went . |
| 11 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 12 | He 'd just gone down there because er . |
| 13 | Returning about tea time , he 'd then gone out once more to deliver some computer disks for another project he was running in Heanor . |
| 14 | The American had presumably gone willingly enough , and it was she who had first suggested to Michele to try ‘ being nice to the girl ’ , so she must be very sure of him . |
| 15 | It had all gone wrong somehow ; she did n't know why , but it had . |
| 16 | It had all gone too deep for crying . |
| 17 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 18 | He had only gone out socially with his secretary for after-work drinks and may then have only been less formal than if her were at work . ’ |
| 19 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 20 | So far things had apparently gone very smoothly . |
| 21 | The woman , the baby and the speaker had already gone back inside . |
| 22 | There were those in Parliament who felt that things had already gone too far , despite the Home Secretary 's reassurances that it was too soon for legislation . |
| 23 | They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . |
| 24 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 25 | Mind you , by the time they get here it 's they 've probably gone out anyway ! |
| 26 | This time you 've really gone too far ! ’ |
| 27 | He agreed that this advice had been good but said that things had now gone too far . |
| 28 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 29 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 30 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |