What is "went so far as to"

Usage examples of "went so far as to".

Being as usual a master of diplomatics, Eibon went so far as to make a formal acceptance on behalf of himself and his companion.

He went so far as to eat and drink from the same big dish shared by a group of Bedouins.

Liz insisted, and went so far as to jab her elbow into his ribs when Sara faced away.

He went so far as to impugn my masculinity, if you can believe it.

He even went so far as to remark, in his pompous manner, that if there were evil spirits in the house, the presence of so many servants of God ought to intimidate them.

So radical, so alien was the notion that the xenopsychs assigned to study the phenomenon went so far as to postulate the existence of two separate Human species differentiated only by a genetic proclivity for violence yet to be isolated.

I even went so far as to be upon the point of bestowing a gentle kiss upon his forehead.

They went so far as to state that it was possible that if changes occurred we would not notice them, that no instruments imaginable could detect them.

Some of these desponding observers went so far as to predict an impending social cataclysm.

On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs.

There were moments when he even smiled at some lively sally, and at last he went so far as to join in that merry combat of wits, and defend himself from their attacks, which were made with a good-humour that but thinly veiled the dislike he was held in and the satisfaction that was culled from his late discomfiture.

Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters .

Alarys and Modarra went so far as to draw their belt knives, though they had no need of steel when they had the One Power.