Example sentences of "go to the [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 32 | And afterwards they went to the trouble of calling out the Carabinieri to make sure I did n't die of exposure . |
| 33 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 34 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 35 | We at least went to the trouble of asking them . ’ |
| 36 | William Houstoun went to the trouble of making drawings in the West Indies , which he bequeathed to Philip Miller and from these Sir Joseph Banks published the engravings as Reliquiae Houstounianae ( 1781 ) . |
| 37 | The " Sunday Times " went to the extreme of publishing a " dummy " first edition to mislead the authorities on the night it broke the " spycatcher " revelations in Britain , but such devices are unavailable to television and radio programmes , the advance publicity for which will generally put the Attorney-General 's office on notice of a potentially embarrassing " leak " . |
| 38 | Beverley and Liverpool reformers in 1824 went to the point of envisaging no substantial changes in the structure of West Indian agriculture with the arrival of emancipation . |
| 39 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 40 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 41 | The chairman then went to the extent of scrapping every committee , and having three full council meetings a week , on the grounds that every member should consider every issue . |
| 42 | In his first book , Talking With Horses , he even went to the extent of compiling a dictionary of horse vocabulary ! |
| 43 | According to Henry Vizetelly in his History of Champagne , many nobles went to the expense of having their own special buying commissioners stationed in the village to secure the finest vintages of this royal wine . |
| 44 | ‘ Simon went to the length of telling all those lies in order to try and thumb his nose at me ? ’ he protested . |
| 45 | I even went to the length of taking Kitty McKenna to the pictures last week . |
| 46 | In 1925 the Post Office , which operated independently or through other licensees outside London , went to the length of installing , for a private subscriber in Eastbourne , a free line to St Andrew 's Church 933 yards away , and charged him an annual rental of £1 17 6d ( £1 8712 ) under a three-year contract . |
| 47 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 48 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 49 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 50 | Ixos 's interest in NT stems from its 32-bit architecture , and Microsoft has gone to the lengths of creating a system with a sufficiently large directory to cater for both Intel Corp iAPX-86-based systems and Ixos 's archive system . |
| 51 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 52 | And she 's even gone to the extent of checking on the stone which is a memorial in churchyard of the . |
| 53 | In an essay written with Watt in 1963 ( in Goody , ed. 1968 ) , Goody sets out to counter-balance the relativism of his colleagues in anthropology which , he feels , ‘ has now gone to the point of denying that the distinction between non-literate and literate societies has any significant validity ’ . |
| 54 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 55 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 56 | Numerous trials have evaluated the various procedures performed during pregnancy and labour ( Iain Chalmers has even gone to the trouble of collating them ) but very few of these ideas have changed obstetric practice . |
| 57 | I wonder how many times in the past , when you 've been staying here , you 've gone to the trouble of escorting Kirsty to school ? ’ |
| 58 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 59 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
| 60 | Who had gone to the trouble of making such notes ? |