Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 2 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 3 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 4 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 5 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 6 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 7 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
| 8 | we 'd , we 'd tie , we 'd tie a wire round the pole and heave that up you see so far but you could n't pull the chain up . |
| 9 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 10 | But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ? |
| 11 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 12 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 13 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 14 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 15 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 16 | They came so far and then they stopped , looking confused and wary . |
| 17 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 18 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 19 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 20 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 21 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 22 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 23 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 24 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 25 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 26 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 27 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 28 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 29 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 30 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |