Example sentences of "had go so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 2 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 3 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 4 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 5 | However , by then things had gone so far , outside Parliament , that some change was necessary . |
| 6 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 7 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 9 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 10 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 11 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 12 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |