Example sentences of "so far [conj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 5 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And if a new kind of replicator takeover is beginning , it is conceivable that it will take off so far as to leave its parent DNA ( and its grandparent clay if Cairns-Smith is right ) far behind . |
| 8 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 9 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |
| 10 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 11 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 12 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |