Example sentences of "went [adv] far [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 4 | Even when Shaun and Bez went as far as editing Penthouse for the day , papers tutted and sighed but still printed pictures of the pair grinning like village idiots , surrounded by tits and bums . |
| 5 | John Major did not publicly denounce Mr Churchill , but went as far as hinting that he disapproved . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 8 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 9 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 10 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |