Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 32 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 33 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 34 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 35 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 38 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 39 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 40 | The blue eyes appeared as hard as steel as her brown ones met them fleetingly . |
| 41 | The Prior questioned him closely and Corbett answered as accurately as he could . |
| 42 | These researchers presented a group of subjects with a verbal dichotic listening task and noted that subjects gave more rightward than leftward eye movements as well as showing the usual right ear advantage on the dichotic task . |
| 43 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 44 | THE family of a kidnapped Israeli soldier wept openly yesterday after his body was found near a road in the occupied West Bank . |
| 45 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 46 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 47 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 48 | Archer 's expression was grim , his mouth closed tight briefly as it came flooding back to him . |
| 49 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 50 | In this way men continue to have remarkably cheap servants and capitalist industry and the state to have the labour force reproduced as cheaply as possible . |
| 51 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 52 | Ruth got as far as the doorway and stopped dead . |
| 53 | Two tall young men in finely cut gallibayas and white scarves asked rather formally if they might walk with us , then lapsed into shy silence . |
| 54 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 55 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 56 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 57 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 58 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 59 | The committee met as often as necessary ( at least monthly ) up to the start of industrial action , but at critical stages more regularly , and against a background of considerable informal consultation . |
| 60 | The Stealer loped slowly away as though injured , dodging from one steel column to the next . |