Example sentences of "n't go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 2 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |
| 3 | I would n't play snakes and ladders — I have n't gone that far yet ! |
| 4 | Tuesday the seventh when , I 've just got to write it in my book you see because I have n't gone that far ahead . |
| 5 | She only hoped the affair had n't gone too far for those things to cease to matter . |
| 6 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 7 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 8 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 9 | ‘ The Home Office takes the attitude these people are here for economic reasons ; you do n't go this far for £25 a week income support payments . |
| 10 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 11 | I did n't go that far back . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's just hope it does n't go that far . ’ |
| 13 | things or they some wo n't go that far . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't go that far , ’ she said coolly . |
| 15 | ‘ Mrs Smith is a model and she also runs a shop in Solihull ; coincidence does n't go that far , Miss Adams . ’ |
| 16 | I just ca n't go that far away , not overnight or … |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I would n't go that far . |
| 18 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 19 | The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 20 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 21 | Er diary does n't go that far . |
| 22 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 23 | But anti hunt lobby say they wo n't go that far . |
| 24 | I would n't go that far ! |
| 25 | I would n't go that far . |
| 26 | But it does n't go that far . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |
| 28 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 29 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |
| 30 | We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung |