Example sentences of "[adv] go to the length of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Martin ever went to the lengths of Turner in inviting a practising architect to check his buildings for stylistic accuracy is not recorded . |
| 2 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 3 | Even going to the length of alleging in the public press that it was the Board which was in breach of its contract . |
| 4 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 5 | I even went to the length of taking Kitty McKenna to the pictures last week . |
| 6 | 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 . |