Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] far as [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
2 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
3 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
4 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
5 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |