Example sentences of "far as [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 3 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 4 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 5 | But with Barnet owing £1.3million and the players and staff unpaid for three weeks , Stein believes it is unlikely the crisis can be averted and went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 6 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 7 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 8 | And if a new kind of replicator takeover is beginning , it is conceivable that it will take off so far as to leave its parent DNA ( and its grandparent clay if Cairns-Smith is right ) far behind . |
| 9 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 10 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 11 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 12 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |