Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 32 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 33 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 34 | Local planners admitted they went too far when they insisted he take down his flag pole because it was n't straight enough . |
| 35 | Brown 's in Dover Street , they went there straight after it went wrong , my grandmother and my mother and Mena . |
| 36 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 37 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |
| 38 | It enacts , subject to limitation , that a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence , but it goes no further than that … |
| 39 | However , where the transfer includes goodwill and/or know-how , a non-competition clause will be permissible provided it goes no further than is necessary to protect the value of the business transferred . |
| 40 | It goes even deeper than that . |
| 41 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
| 42 | It goes roughly like if you 'll pardon the lumps everywhere . |
| 43 | It goes significantly further than others in detailing long-term expenditure , projected land/building values , future developments , running costs , occupation costs , depreciation , performance assessments , information technology systems , and so on . |
| 44 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 45 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 46 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 47 | No it goes further on than that , I 'm on tape three . |
| 48 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 49 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 50 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 51 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 52 | He went even further than that ; when Bradlaugh was imprisoned during the oath struggle , Headlam sent him a telegram reading : ‘ Accept my warmest sympathy . |
| 53 | At Forteviot , he went no further than the gateway to pick up more news . |
| 54 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 55 | He went as silently as he could up the drive and peered into the garage . |
| 56 | He went as far as to say that the universities were not convinced of the value of this ‘ experiment ’ and that there were fundamental defects in the way it was being implemented . |
| 57 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 58 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 59 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 60 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |