Example sentences of "even [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 2 | Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on . |
| 3 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 4 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 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 even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 9 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 10 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 11 | Some of the Indian princes had private stations , and in China special stations were even built so that the Emperor could visit the western tombs at the appropriate time of the year . |
| 12 | Use light even strokes so as not to cause bubbles to form in the film . |
| 13 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 14 | He himself even says so . |
| 15 | Even says so himself , I think . |
| 16 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 17 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 18 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 19 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 20 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 21 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |
| 23 | Predictably , the Koons exhibit dominated attention at a festival that included work from scores of internationally renowned , but less flashy artists , and even proved so provocative that one fanatic ended up slashing each painting with a knife , some four months after the show opened . |
| 24 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 27 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 28 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 29 | Nay , they even go so far as to lay odds that before Christmas he lands a force in England or Ireland . |
| 30 | 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 . |