Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] went [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 2 | It is difficult to make broader international comparisons in social policy , but Kaim-Caudle ( 1973 ) placed the UK top among ten countries for its health service provision , though in his survey of wider social security policies the top place went more often to other countries , the Netherlands , West Germany and Denmark . |
| 3 | ‘ I wonder where that old rat went just now , ’ he thought . |
| 4 | Dr Bargar said : ‘ The entire procedure went remarkably well . ’ |
| 5 | In 1956–7 a mass inoculation campaign in Loliondo division against bovine pleuro-pneumonia went seriously awry and thousands of cattle died . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The thatched roof went long ago , but when I was a child the loft was still covered and Mother and Father kept a bed there and a few other necessary things . |
| 9 | In particular West Ham and Poplar and a handful of other Boards with active Labour members went as far as their resources permitted in providing out-door relief and improved workhouse conditions even for the unemployed , even though they faced considerable opposition from the LGB . |
| 10 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 11 | By comparison with the religious orders , the secular church went much closer into the life of ordinary people . |
| 12 | In retrospect , it is clear that this preemptive strategy succeeded : in most areas of France , the transfer of power into the hands of the Gaullist state went relatively smoothly ; Vichy 's bureaucracy put up no substantial resistance to de Gaulle ; and the AMGOT threat was averted . |
| 13 | Shaved partings went no further than the crown ( not in rows down the back of the head . ) |
| 14 | No other state went so far as this ; but then none needed to , for none started from the same position of isolation and estrangement from the outside world . |
| 15 | A young man went downstairs early one morning wearing nothing but a short nightgown . |
| 16 | Sometimes he fell in a landslide on Finn , clouting him round the head over the dinner table when Finn 's insouciant insolence went too far . |
| 17 | One of the Australian diggers on the other hand went home early to apply his newly won knowledge to his home state of New South Wales . |
| 18 | The new system went live earlier this year . |
| 19 | The transition to the new system went very smoothly , and those involved in the Home Office and in the police forces deserve congratulations on this significant achievement . |
| 20 | The other interviews went smoothly enough . |
| 21 | The whole thing went very well . |