Example sentences of "[verb] so far [conj] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 7 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |