Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 2 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 5 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |