Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 2 | Doyle suddenly went very still . |
| 3 | He had overheard his uncle warning the two maid-servants not to go up there because it was too dangerous . |
| 4 | ‘ Fans just go straight home instead of coming in for a drink . |
| 5 | There was some truth in this but I expect the practice still goes on today . |
| 6 | in the back seat well go on then blow away |
| 7 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 8 | Michele spotted it when it was just about to sink and was fool enough to go in fully clothed . ’ |
| 9 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 10 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 11 | Ken was so put off that this potential sexual-encounter never went any further . |
| 12 | ‘ Not that I 'm nervous about flying , but a quick gin and tonic always goes down rather well ! ’ |
| 13 | Warm-up rants at smaller home-grown affairs in Glasgow , Blackburn and Barry from Gordon Brown , Robin Cook and Tony Blair respectively went down far better with the party activists than the leader 's indigestible offerings , giving an intriguing clue to an uncertain future . |
| 14 | Seeds just go down there . |
| 15 | The war still goes on downstairs , does n't it ? |
| 16 | There let your fish rest until you are ready to serve it : warm with a sauce of your own devising — variations on the hollandaise theme always go down well — or cold when it has cooled . |
| 17 | Once they 've got there , the organism really goes no further . |
| 18 | But green campaigns directed at the handling of solid waste sometimes go much further than is justified by the need to protect health , or even to prevent litter or damage to the landscape . |
| 19 | In bio-chemistry drug design , using enzymes to produce , for example , methanol or efanol — huge advances again going on here . |
| 20 | And then er then when her husband died , he er we went out We used to go out together cos me husband never went out much . |
| 21 | During the war the national crisis kept discontent within bounds , but when income tax actually went up again in 1919 ( to pay amongst other things-for homes for heroes ) the reaction of taxpayers was very hostile indeed , especially when in 1920 inflation reached unprecedented levels too . |
| 22 | Well no , the reason I and because these things just go so quickly |
| 23 | ‘ Big race not going on here . |
| 24 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 25 | Could death education ever go this far as to teach the bereaved how to dig a grave and incidentally earn a discount ? |
| 26 | ‘ The underwriting really went exceedingly well , given the size of the issue . ’ |
| 27 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 28 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 29 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 30 | a bit of arson on a Sunday night never went down badly |