Example sentences of "not go too " in BNC.
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| 1 | When boring the holes , take great care not to go too deep or you 'll come through the face of the door ! |
| 2 | ... Alex loved a verbal fight … but he was generally canny enough not to go too far . |
| 3 | At this first stage , it is essential not to go too fast , but by now most people have already done so ; they have already jumbled the cube and thereby discovered the basic mathematical problem : how do you get back to where you started ? |
| 4 | Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’ |
| 5 | The wise use of police discretion and the genuine effort not to go too far in their protest on the part of the pickets and demonstrators is the formula for resolution of this aspect of conflict . |
| 6 | Take care not to go too far ! |
| 7 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 8 | To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you not to go too fast , ’ said Jason . |
| 10 | Jokes with the younger farm-hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss . |
| 11 | ‘ I was just pushing the ball , my passing shots were not going too well . |
| 12 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 13 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 14 | But it 's not going too well for me , Robyn . |
| 15 | Though very tense throughout the whole week , I felt that things were not going too badly . |
| 16 | While some in the establishment may be asking whether things are not going too far and calling for the floodgates to be closed , as the careers of powerful figures come to an end , the magistrates are determined to see the process through to its conclusion . |
| 17 | I feel you should pick and choose your events carefully , do not run each weekend and if it is hard do not go too fast . |
| 18 | But do not go too far . |
| 19 | The annual replacement of the fuel rods a month later did not go too well either . |
| 20 | Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers . |
| 21 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 22 | This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours . |
| 23 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 24 | In Britain at least , and to a greater or lesser extent in other financial centres also , this deregulatory trend has been accompanied by a wave of new regulatory developments to ensure that deregulation does not go too far . |
| 25 | Modulations towards keys on the sharp side of the ‘ circle of fifths ’ are good , providing they do not go too far . |
| 26 | If there is no tuba , the part which would have been given to it will be allotted to two bassoons in unison ( if it does not go too low for them , of course ) . |
| 27 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 28 | She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . |
| 29 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman 's mathematical skills are letting him down today — perhaps I should not go too deeply into that in case we get into a tangle . |