Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [adv] [vb infin] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROBBIE I tried , but I did n't get far . |
| 2 | ‘ Yer did n't go far . |
| 3 | She did n't go far ; there seemed no point . |
| 4 | And then we she got married we still kept in touch with one another and I got married and we did n't live far from one another . |
| 5 | We did n't get far , but I really got my teeth into caddying . |
| 6 | This must have been the only totally calm day of our whole trip so we did n't get far , but it was very relaxing trailing fingers in the water and enjoying the sun ( NB water too cold to swim ! ) . |
| 7 | Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough . |
| 8 | These measures were welcomed , but many felt they did not go far enough . |
| 9 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 10 | They did not get far . |
| 11 | Cos they they did n't live far from me , I did know her by sight . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no harm done and they did n't get far . |
| 13 | They did n't get far , of course , but they managed to get out of the prison itself … ’ |
| 14 | I knew all these stars were a long , long way away but they did n't look far away . |
| 15 | His policy of moving towards a more liberal regime led to the usual situation which such changes produce , that is , for the reformers he did not go far enough , for the conservatives he went too far . |
| 16 | He did not get far . |
| 17 | He did not run far . |
| 18 | He did n't go far ; his car was parked outside the double gates of a boatyard . |
| 19 | He did n't run far , however , because all too soon he heard Mait 's dragging footsteps . |
| 20 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 21 | A quite contrary type of criticism of the Devolution Bill came from those who felt it did not go far enough : the existing degree of administrative devolution in Scotland required a genuine , federal assembly even with taxing powers . |
| 22 | 15 of them , together with Austria , issued a formal objection to the conference 's final statement , claiming that it did not go far enough in setting goals for limiting global warming , or in guaranteeing aid to developing countries . |
| 23 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 24 | But it did n't go far enough . |
| 25 | But it did n't go far enough . |
| 26 | The car engine roared again and the red car moved off but it did n't go far . |