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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcvii. f. cclxxviii^v/1 Sir quod Phylip Dartwell we haue no such charge to go so far as to bryng the good people of Gaunt in to y^t poynt. for I ensure you they wyll nat so do.

?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie ii. f. 97^v They went so farre as to set him at debate with the King his brother, and..to cause nature and bloud to liue in mistrust of it selfe.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. ix. 245 Philastrius goes so farre, as to condemne the opinion of their fixednesse for an heresie.

1683 T. B. tr. J. Claude Hist. Def. Reformation iii. iv. 93 See here precisely these two separations whereof I speak, the one that deprives one of the communion of the Sacraments, and the other which breaks of Christian Unity; one which is but to correct, and the other which goes as far as to pluck up.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Ancient Academy doubted of every thing; and went so far as to make it a Doubt, whether or no they ought to doubt.

1764 G. G. Beekman Let. 3 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 469 The floating Custom Houses Not only Destress us in Our Trade but go so far as Even to Empress Our Markit men and fishermen.

1808 M. Bott in Trial Col. Aaron Burr (new ed.) I. 426 I have gone as far as to declare, that colonel Burr ought to be hanged.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit i. xxxi. 275 Fanny (still wishing herself dead, and indeed now going so far as to add, buried) cried ‘Come in!’

1912 ‘Saki’ Chron. Clovis 243 She disapproved of many things; some people went as far as to say that she disapproved of most things.

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. d2 Whether the Administration would go so far as to fight a more serious slump..by accelerating planned tax cuts or by speeding up expenditures is doubtful.

2002 J. Seaborg Journey's End 345 ‘So the family has nothing?’.. ‘I wouldn't go so far as to say that. This will hurt us though.’