Example sentences of "will [vb infin] [adv] far [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 2 | The best Ford simulator yet , in fact I will go so far as to say that they could not bring another one out to top this one . |
| 3 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 4 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 5 | ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’ |
| 6 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |