Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 5 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 6 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 7 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 8 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 11 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 12 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 13 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 14 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 16 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 17 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 18 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 19 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 20 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 21 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 22 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 23 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 24 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 25 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |