Example sentences of "only go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 2 | The full extension of the slide only goes as far down as C , but an ‘ E slide ’ gives the low B natural ; the B flat is taken as a ‘ pedal note ’ in the first position of the B flat instrument and the rest of the pedal notes are available down to E , the bottom open string of the string bass . |
| 3 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 4 | But it only goes so far . |
| 5 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 6 | The railway only went as far as Achnasheen in 1876 . |
| 7 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |
| 8 | ‘ Gentrification ’ only went so far in most of the Sussex towns . |
| 9 | But this ‘ feminization ’ only went so far : ‘ Still only boys for singers ? |
| 10 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 11 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 12 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 13 | Some of the migrants may only go as far as southern Europe . |
| 14 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 15 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 16 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
| 17 | Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge |
| 18 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |