Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church .
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 And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ?
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’
9 Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals .
14 Local planners admitted they went too far when they insisted he take down his flag pole because it was n't straight enough .
15 They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back .
16 They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years .
17 It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized .
18 We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability .
19 We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 " .
24 Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic .
25 He went as far as to say that the universities were not convinced of the value of this ‘ experiment ’ and that there were fundamental defects in the way it was being implemented .
26 He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost .
27 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 .
28 In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District .
29 When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey .
30 He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi .
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