Example sentences of "[vb past] so far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jean raged and argued , and even went so far as to attempt tenderness in her effort to get Ted back to ordinary but working unhappiness . |
| 32 | The British even , at the eleventh hour , went so far as to change the rules to allow a republic , by definition owing no allegiance to the British Crown , to be a member . |
| 33 | Perceived as ‘ weak ’ and ‘ lonely ’ , one respondent went so far as to condemn raisins as ‘ embarrassing to be seen with in public ’ ! |
| 34 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 35 | He even went so far as to say that he would n't do the picture without her . |
| 36 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 37 | Maxine , a futures market broker , went so far as to put ‘ single ’ on her CV , although she is married with an 18-month-old baby . |
| 38 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |
| 39 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 42 | Some even went so far as to stipulate the use of linen in their will : Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , took account of the £5 fine when drawing up her instructions in 1784 : ‘ And I do hereby Order and direct that sum of Ten pound shall be paid to the person who shall … see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen and shall give Information and make Oath thereof wheereby the Poor of the parish Will be intitled to the sum of fifty shilling … . ’ |
| 43 | The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired . |
| 44 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 45 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 46 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 47 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 48 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 49 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 50 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , radicals like William Walwyn and Gerrard Winstanley began to express doubts about the doctrine of hell , while the Ranters went so far as to deny the existence of sin , and some early English Unitarians , such as John Bidle , attacked the doctrine of the trinity and denied Christ 's divinity . |
| 51 | Cranmer indeed went so far as to claim that : ‘ where the word of God was adversary and against his authority , pomp , covetousness , idolatry and superstitious doctrine , he [ the pope ] , spying this , became adversary unto the word of God , falsifying it , extorting it out of the true sense . ’ |
| 52 | Indeed , so fundamental to the outlook of Jacobean Protestants was this identification of the pope with Antichrist that one contemporary went so far as to define a Protestant as one who ‘ can swear the Pope is antichrist and that flesh is good on Friday ’ . |
| 53 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 54 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 55 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 56 | X/Open chief technical officer , Mike Lambert , went so far as to describe XPG4 as ‘ a new direction for open systems . ’ |
| 57 | Compaq went so far as to draft the specification which included an ARC-like HAL , or Hardware Abstraction Layer , to separate the value added from the hardware implementation . |
| 58 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 59 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 60 | In January 1881 he went so far as to recommend the involvement of zemstvo and municipal duma representatives in commissions appointed to consider reform of peasant affairs and local government . |