Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle suddenly went very still . |
| 2 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 3 | Warm-up rants at smaller home-grown affairs in Glasgow , Blackburn and Barry from Gordon Brown , Robin Cook and Tony Blair respectively went down far better with the party activists than the leader 's indigestible offerings , giving an intriguing clue to an uncertain future . |
| 4 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 5 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
| 6 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 7 | After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure . |
| 8 | President Bani Sadr of Iran said that his country was unwilling to respond , with the inevitable consequence that Iraq simply went ahead unilaterally and then cut the experiment short . |
| 9 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 10 | Rarely did Hubert Gaily go out anywhere else , on any other night , and never had he failed to enjoy his close , companionable , ale-coloured Saturday night . |
| 11 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |
| 12 | Nicholas Cruz though goes much further than that . |
| 13 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 14 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 15 | Although the two co-defendants were initially remanded together , the prosecution of Mr. Kiang ultimately went ahead separately . |