Example sentences of "go so far [subord] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
| 2 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
| 3 | At the end of 1854 another Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , went so far as to speak up for peasants who murdered their landlords . |
| 4 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
| 5 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 6 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |