Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adv] as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 2 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 3 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 4 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 7 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The fuse would destroy itself , the gunpowder explode , poor Cosmas 's legs would be shattered , and even if he wanted to , the fire spread so quickly as to prevent his escape . |