Example sentences of "not [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright , you not got far on this |
| 2 | Stanley , who was reading a paper , said to Mary Ann : ‘ Tell our Emily she 's not to go far . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you were told not to go far , young lady . |
| 4 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 5 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 6 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 7 | So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above . |
| 8 | Instead of paying cash for each chance accepted would charity not benefit far more if 50p was paid for each dropped catch and missed stumping ? |
| 9 | The main gathering of scholars was at Charles ' court , and it seems clear that there was a conscious attempt to restore classical glories , even though much of this did not percolate far beyond the royal circle of intimates . |
| 10 | I walk upstream ; upstream because I can wade to the other bank if I need to and any disturbance will not carry far against the current . |
| 11 | ‘ I watched him play against Liverpool and he scored a fine goal and did not look far short of his true form . ’ |
| 12 | In future , ministers need not look far for a way to bridge working relationships between central and local government . |
| 13 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 14 | He was not going far , by no means as far as Longner , but far enough to be absent when the immediate danger threatened . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps they 're not going far , ’ said Antony , peering through the curtains . |
| 16 | The reductions have been criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough . |
| 17 | erm it might well look like that for that very small piece of graph , but the overall picture you 've lost completely by not going far enough so you , you want minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 18 | The Bundesbank can be — and has been — criticised for not going far enough to stimulate the German economy . |
| 19 | On the tail , lane road , give way to vehicles coming towards you you must not overtake if you would have to cross or straddle double white lines with a solid line on the out of you , erm if you 're within a zig zag area , the pelican crossing , after a normal overtaking sign until the end of the restriction , do not overtake when you can not see far enough ahead , for example , when coming through |
| 20 | He did not run far . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're not getting far with that , are you ? ’ said Ron . |
| 22 | I 'm not getting far . |
| 23 | The greatest number of past lives experienced by any of my patients during the course of such discovery is eight — but this does not mean that we do not have far more than that , simply that the patient chose to stop after that number . |
| 24 | But Murray was determined that the knightly chivalry should not ride far ahead , as so often happened , and so endanger both . |
| 25 | But it can not stray far from water . |
| 26 | He 'll not stray far . ’ |
| 27 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 28 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 29 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 30 | The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ . |