Example sentences of "had [vb pp] so far [conj] " 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	But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable .
6	That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’
7	North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras .
8	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 .
9	Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .

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