Example sentences of "n't go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Home Office takes the attitude these people are here for economic reasons ; you do n't go this far for £25 a week income support payments . |
| 2 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 3 | I did n't go that far back . |
| 4 | ‘ Let's just hope it does n't go that far . ’ |
| 5 | things or they some wo n't go that far . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't go that far , ’ she said coolly . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Smith is a model and she also runs a shop in Solihull ; coincidence does n't go that far , Miss Adams . ’ |
| 8 | I just ca n't go that far away , not overnight or … |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I would n't go that far . |
| 10 | The latter do not necessarily imply that the infinitive event actually occurs : ( 173 ) Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 11 | The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 12 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 13 | Er diary does n't go that far . |
| 14 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 15 | But anti hunt lobby say they wo n't go that far . |
| 16 | I would n't go that far ! |
| 17 | I would n't go that far . |
| 18 | But it does n't go that far . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |
| 20 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 21 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I would n't go so far ( that would be to devalue all the peaks in the interim ) — but the single is stupendous . |
| 24 | I would n't go so far . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We dare n't go so far . |
| 26 | ‘ As you know , the road does n't go so far . ’ |
| 27 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 28 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
| 29 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 30 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |