Example sentences of "go [adv] far as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
2 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
3 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
4 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
5 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
6 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
7 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
8 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
9 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
10 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
11 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
12 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
13 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |
14 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
15 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
16 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
17 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
18 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
19 | ‘ Produce your bit of paper , ’ he rapped out , ‘ and , although I wo n't go so far as to give your eventual marriage my blessing , at least I 'll let it run its natural course . |
20 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
21 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
22 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
23 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
24 | I would n't go so far as to say there 's no skill , because if you do have skill in identifying draws , then you 'll increase your chances of winning by using your skill in identifying those draws , but how much you win depends very heavily on how many draws there are and how many other people choose those same draws . |
25 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
26 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
27 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
28 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
29 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
30 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |