Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 11 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 12 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 13 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 14 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
| 15 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 16 | What heartened as well as chastened me about the letter was his wish to see more of my writing . |
| 17 | ‘ I got as far as unpacking my summer wear … ! ! ’ |
| 18 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 19 | Even in her dazed and painful state his imperious , if not to say imperial manner amused as well as annoyed her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 22 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 23 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 24 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 25 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 28 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |