Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood may not stretch very far one way or the other . |
| 2 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 3 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 4 | could n't climb very far . |
| 5 | ‘ Look at the state of me. — I would n't get very far , would I ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd have to come through Liverpool and they would n't get very far , I can tell you . |
| 7 | ‘ You would n't get very far with the Reichsführer with that argument . ’ |
| 8 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 9 | It would be especially bad for the old folk who ca n't walk very far — they could n't walk to a bus stop outside the estate could they ? |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I can assure you that the Council will not move very far without consulting representatives of all the interested parties , including the institutes of education ’ . |
| 12 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 13 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 14 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH the onlookers might find the sight entertaining , you wo n't get very far trying to tow a full-size power boat with a Reliant Robin . |
| 17 | Adults wo n't get very far in trying to help someone unless they find out what their reasons are . |
| 18 | COSE may make a pass at enriching the Motif specification with stuff from Open Look but the effort , if there is one , probably wo n't get very far . |
| 19 | COSE may make a pass at enriching the Motif spec with stuff from Open Look but the effort , if there is one , probably wo n't get very far . |
| 20 | ‘ After all , you wo n't get very far without them . ’ |
| 21 | A concept of knowing well which rejects stereotyping can not move very far from the experience which generates the knowledge . |
| 22 | ( In this paper I can not go very far into the available wealth of fact and conjecture in the neurophysiology of language , psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition , and comparative studies of man and other primates . |
| 23 | But comparison with the press can not go very far . |
| 24 | With your foot in that condition you can not go very far . |
| 25 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |