Example sentences of "went so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 2 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 3 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |
| 4 | The party 's phone-in went so well that it will be repeated on the next three Wednesday evenings right up to the eve of the poll . |
| 5 | It went so well that the consultancy is now planning to hold more top notch dinners at Cottons . |
| 6 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 7 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
| 8 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 9 | An English handbook written in 1980 even went so far as to state : ‘ The enjoyment of looking ( what we call the aesthetic experience ) is , in fact , the core of the discipline known as Art History . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , the Broadwater Farm Youth Association has expressed its concern about the situation to the police on a number of occasions , and in August 1989 went so far as to close the youth centre on the estate for some time in an effort to stop dealers congregating there . |
| 11 | Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda . |
| 12 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 13 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 14 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 15 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 16 | But he never went so far as to say that his intention was to qualify for legal aid , the court said . |
| 17 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 18 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 19 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 20 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 21 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , as has often happened in developing countries as well , he completely underestimated the people 's desire for land , and went so far as to oppose the implementation of the Land Settlement Act . |
| 25 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 26 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |
| 27 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 28 | Donald Gordon , when president of the Canadian National Railway , went so far as to say ‘ What Robert Burns is to Scotland , Edna Jacques is to Canada ’ . |
| 29 | Maslow went so far as to say that ill people who treat their fellow men with kindness are forces for mental health and those who disdain or belittle other men are forces for mental illness . |
| 30 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |