Example sentences of "gone to the [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 2 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And she 's even gone to the extent of checking on the stone which is a memorial in churchyard of the . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Who had gone to the trouble of making such notes ? |
| 15 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 16 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 17 | Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour 's promised Ministry for Women . |
| 18 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |