Example sentences of "they [vb past] not [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These measures were welcomed , but many felt they did not go far enough . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They did not get far . |
| 5 | They had not gone far before the leading vehicle halted at a metal pole stretched across the road , and the rest of the convoy bunched up behind . |
| 6 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 7 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 8 | They had not spread far — it was not their way — from the hive . |