Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 2 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 3 | Now Malekith had gone too far . |
| 4 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 5 | Fred had gone too far , had widened the discourse unfairly . |
| 6 | Israel has gone too far this time . |
| 7 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 8 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 9 | But Harding was rallying his faculties fast ; I was certain Lawrence had gone too far this time . |
| 10 | She felt that Maggie Gibbs had gone too far . |
| 11 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 12 | Barry has gone too far this time . |
| 13 | Barry has gone too far this time . |
| 14 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 15 | S. Kettering had gone too far . |
| 16 | In all the arts , we may prefer the abnormal and regard that which is entirely sound and healthy as commonplace ; but late Turners have gone too far , in Lieberich 's opinion , to be admirable . |
| 17 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 18 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 19 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |