Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] so [adv] as to say " in BNC.
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1 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
2 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
3 | Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ . |
4 | Tolstoy went so far as to say that " He who was not alive in the Russia of 1856 does not know what life is " . |
5 | Maslow went so far as to say that ill people who treat their fellow men with kindness are forces for mental health and those who disdain or belittle other men are forces for mental illness . |