Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] [adv] as " 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 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 .
3 It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ’ .
7 His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine .
8 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 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 ’ .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Perceived as ‘ weak ’ and ‘ lonely ’ , one respondent went so far as to condemn raisins as ‘ embarrassing to be seen with in public ’ !
14 One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade .
15 All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity .
16 The figure was well below City estimates and one analyst went as far as to say that the detailed announcement ‘ deserves to set the standards for all ’ .
17 One writer went so far as to say that this construction ‘ flies in the face of the settled interpretation of this provision . ’
18 Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable .
19 The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen .
23 The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired .
24 The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning .
25 Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains .
26 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 .
27 Her speech went as well as was possible , given that it was being made on the stickiest of sticky Parliamentary wickets .
28 His face went as hard as the bronze , it resembled and his eyes said things I pretended not to hear .
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