Example sentences of "far [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 3 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 4 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 5 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 6 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 7 | Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable . |
| 8 | Some district societies also want an assurance that the Institute will not take on additional regulatory responsibilities without consulting the membership : some go as far as urging it to oppose any future legislation to extend statutory regulation of members ' activities . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 12 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | go as far as to say we probably know less about what 's going on than he does . |
| 15 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , I 'd go as far as to say you 've got the worst case of it I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In fact , I would go as far as to say he 's a slob . |
| 21 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 22 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 23 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 27 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 28 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |