Example sentences of "so far as [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah .
2 Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma .
3 " From this resolution of the Presbytery Mr Pearson asked to leave the chair , which was granted , to enter his dissent so far as regards Mr Charles McNeill . "
4 The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired .
5 Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’
6 Hilaire Belloc , often ambivalent towards the Jewish people , went so far as to condemn Chesterton 's ethnic slurs .
7 He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat .
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