Example sentences of "even [verb] [adv] far as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 2 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 3 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 4 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 5 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |