Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 2 | The noise of music did not reach this far , but the voices of the women , who chattered away at full blast , were just as loud . |
| 3 | She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . |
| 4 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 5 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 6 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 7 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 8 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 9 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 10 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 11 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 12 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 13 | Personally , I prefer the notion that this structure , whatever it was , did not open very far at this time and soon closed again . |
| 14 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 15 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 16 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 18 | For the most part , however , the labouring classes did not move very far . |
| 19 | It was important that the brigade did not move too far forward too soon . |
| 20 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 21 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 22 | Provided the landlord ensured that his serfs ' poll-tax did not fall too far into arrears , he was left to his own devices . |
| 23 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 24 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 25 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 26 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 27 | The social worker did not get very far , but having decided to leave , met the son-in-law returning , outside the flat . |
| 28 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 29 | Nigel Barnes had Kate Kennett as a tutor , but he did not get very far with the evaluative work : |
| 30 | We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold . |