Example sentences of "[verb] so far [conj] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 4 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 5 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 6 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 9 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 10 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 11 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 12 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 13 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 16 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Produce your bit of paper , ’ he rapped out , ‘ and , although I wo n't go so far as to give your eventual marriage my blessing , at least I 'll let it run its natural course . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | I would n't go so far as to say there 's no skill , because if you do have skill in identifying draws , then you 'll increase your chances of winning by using your skill in identifying those draws , but how much you win depends very heavily on how many draws there are and how many other people choose those same draws . |
| 26 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 30 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |