Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 .
2 The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks .
3 John McNeill , for example , asserts that the ‘ … issue between Romans and Celts went far deeper than the recorded exchange of arguments indicates ’ .
4 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 .
5 Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul .
6 His face went as hard as the bronze , it resembled and his eyes said things I pretended not to hear .
7 With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 But no one went as far as the teacher quoted by Len Masterman .
10 I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church .
11 Nomes sometimes went as far as the airport .
12 Shaved partings went no further than the crown ( not in rows down the back of the head . )
13 At Forteviot , he went no further than the gateway to pick up more news .
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