Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not go so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 6 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |