Example sentences of "[vb past] so far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that this reflects the very high unemployment experienced so far and the resultant weakened state of the union movement and of labour generally . |
| 5 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 6 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 7 | They came so far and then they stopped , looking confused and wary . |
| 8 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 9 | This is the biggest amount raised so far but this year we hope to raise even more ’ . |
| 10 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 11 | Mrs Cranbrook unbent so far as to show approval . |
| 12 | An English handbook written in 1980 even went so far as to state : ‘ The enjoyment of looking ( what we call the aesthetic experience ) is , in fact , the core of the discipline known as Art History . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , the Broadwater Farm Youth Association has expressed its concern about the situation to the police on a number of occasions , and in August 1989 went so far as to close the youth centre on the estate for some time in an effort to stop dealers congregating there . |
| 14 | Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda . |
| 15 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 16 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey . |
| 17 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 18 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 19 | But he never went so far as to say that his intention was to qualify for legal aid , the court said . |
| 20 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 21 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 22 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
| 23 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 24 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 25 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 26 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , as has often happened in developing countries as well , he completely underestimated the people 's desire for land , and went so far as to oppose the implementation of the Land Settlement Act . |
| 28 | John Maynard Smith went so far as to submit the super-forgiving Tit for Two Tats . |
| 29 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |
| 30 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |