Example sentences of "[vb past] so far as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
2 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
3 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
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 | 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 . |
6 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
7 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |