Example sentences of "[adv] went [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The railway only went as far as Achnasheen in 1876 . |
| 2 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 3 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 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 | Garry Bushell , a tabloid journalist , even went as far as to doubt Mr McShane 's status as a ‘ serious sex symbol ’ . |
| 6 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 7 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 10 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 11 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 12 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness . |
| 15 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 16 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 17 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 18 | Some even went so far as to stipulate the use of linen in their will : Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , took account of the £5 fine when drawing up her instructions in 1784 : ‘ And I do hereby Order and direct that sum of Ten pound shall be paid to the person who shall … see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen and shall give Information and make Oath thereof wheereby the Poor of the parish Will be intitled to the sum of fifty shilling … . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Indeed Holt saw it as a mechanism for controlling the curriculum and even went so far as to suggest that the staff of the APU were concerned to promote desirable curriculum development . |
| 21 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the Bank of England could properly exercise their supervisory powers under the Act without the breaching of customers ' confidences , and even went so far as to submit that the Schedule 3 information could be so furnished by clothing details of customers ' loans or deposits with anonymity . |
| 22 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 23 | In 1991 , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , then minister for health , even went so far as to use section 118 as the reason for not being able to give parliament information about the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines . |
| 24 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 25 | ‘ You could wear this Indian bedspread as a shawl , ’ suggested Robina , and even went so far as pull it off the bed and advance towards Penelope with it . |
| 26 | One writer in 1766 even went so far as to propose that canals be required to end short of their planned destinations . |
| 27 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 28 | Cranmer indeed went so far as to claim that : ‘ where the word of God was adversary and against his authority , pomp , covetousness , idolatry and superstitious doctrine , he [ the pope ] , spying this , became adversary unto the word of God , falsifying it , extorting it out of the true sense . ’ |
| 29 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 30 | Nomes sometimes went as far as the airport . |