Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] went [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the significance of this terrace solidarity went much further than this . |
| 2 | The Candis presentation went well too . |
| 3 | This second dinner went rather better . |
| 4 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 5 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose one of them old cows — well , they stood there rubbing of their old rumps about like that , you know ; and all at once this here tumbril fell down , and the back chain went right just over the front of har shoulders . |
| 7 | After only playing a couple of games for the Anglo-Scots , due to injury , he made a successful impact in the ‘ B ’ game at Murrayfield , where the back row went well enough to be picked en block for the Reds , the junior side in the Scottish trial . |
| 8 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 9 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 10 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 11 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 12 | ‘ He was such a good singer as well , and his guitar playing and his songwriting style went together perfectly . |
| 13 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 14 | From 1853 , when the crisis over US demands for formal relations led the Bakufu to solicit the opinions of all daimyo , a move quite without precedent , Tokugawa authority went rapidly downhill . |
| 15 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 16 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
| 17 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |