Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 2 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 3 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 7 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 8 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |
| 21 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 22 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them . |
| 26 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 27 | Had they taken it away so as to fool him ! |
| 28 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 29 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 30 | Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable . |