Example sentences of "[v-ing] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I do n't like seeing so far , " she said once . |
| 2 | What Firbas seems to be suggesting so far is that theme consists of context-dependent and rheme of context-independent items . |
| 3 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 4 | Trading so far this year is up and the board expects ‘ another year of good growth . ’ |
| 5 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 6 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 7 | Because , with the death of her father just over a year ago , and with her only other living relative , her cousin Liz , living so far away in America , both she and Julie — who also had no close family of her own — were able to provide company for each other . |
| 8 | ‘ The footprints were about twenty metres from the body , and nobody thought of looking so far away , ’ Mortimer replied . |
| 9 | He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far , and felt sure that would n't be held against him . |
| 10 | In one of the more dramatic examples of downsizing so far , Mead Corp 's big Mead Data Central Inc , operator of the world-famous public Lexis and Nexis databases , is replacing one of its IBM Corp mainframes used for administration with members of the Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix family from AT&T Co 's NCR Corp . |
| 11 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 12 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 13 | In man discrimination against known cheaters is intense , going so far as imprisonment and other forms of punishment . |
| 14 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence . |
| 16 | There was a twist to his mouth which , though not going so far as to be a smile , showed some amusement . |
| 17 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 18 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 19 | Over a hasty but adequate meal , the situation and plans were discussed , Black Agnes approving heartily , almost gleefully , indeed going so far as to add an improvement of her own . |
| 20 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 21 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 22 | In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ . |
| 23 | CA has also try to get Borland , Kahn said , going so far as to threaten a hostile takeover . |
| 24 | Borland International Inc chief executive officer Phillipe Kahn told InformationWeek that Computer Associates International Inc wined and dined Novell Inc boss Ray Noorda in an attempt to acquire the NetWare company : Kahn said Noorda quoted an inflated price and chief Computer Associate Charles Wang and executive vice-president Sanjay Kumar stormed away from the table ; the Islandia , New York company has also try to get Borland , Kahn said , going so far as to threaten a hostile takeover bid for the company . |
| 25 | America solves this by recycling old material , chemically extracting impurities , occasionally going so far as to make ‘ ivory ’ plutonium , almost pure Pu . |
| 26 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 27 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 28 | I know it 's 'cause there 's a party planned for my birthday we 're going so far . |
| 29 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |
| 30 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |