Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 2 | On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis . |
| 3 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 4 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 5 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 8 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 15 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 16 | Janice went home earlier because of Teddy 's time-keeping and the office sits in darkness . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Actually Jacobi 's work went rather further than that , for he also found a way of calculating the number of expressions as sums of at most six or eight squares . |
| 20 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 21 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 22 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 23 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 24 | Again perceptions of the value of these interviews differed , but one teacher went so far as to say that if it needed an appraisal to bring these advisers into the school then it was worth it . |
| 25 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 26 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 27 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 28 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 29 | Bergson went so far as to describe intelligence , or the intellect , as being , and I quote , ‘ characterised by a natural inability to comprehend life . ’ |
| 30 | Tolstoy went so far as to say that " He who was not alive in the Russia of 1856 does not know what life is " . |