Example sentences of "had [verb] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
4 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
5 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
6 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
7 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
8 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
9 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
10 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |