Example sentences of "he go so far as [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form .
2 I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly .
3 His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character .
4 Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " .
5 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 ) .
6 Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green .
7 One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over .
8 Indeed , he went so far as to say that Britain 's justice system had been badly bruised by the Government 's failure in this respect .
9 He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost .
10 He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi .
11 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 .
12 When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey .
13 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 . ’
14 Indeed he went so far as to suggest that pupils might be involved in evaluating the curriculum in the future .
15 In 1831 and 1833 he went so far as to attack the Turks , until Britain and Russia intervened to protect the Ottoman empire from disintegration .
16 Like a beggar , he went so far as to pluck at Meredith 's sleeve .
17 On at least one occasion , he went so far as to express the hope that his own son would succeed him as monarch .
18 Furthermore , he went so far as to express readiness to try to gain approval from Falkenhayn for the termination of all operations at Verdun .
19 In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District .
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