Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I prefer the notion that this structure , whatever it was , did not open very far at this time and soon closed again . |
| 2 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 4 | For the most part , however , the labouring classes did not move very far . |
| 5 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 6 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 7 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 8 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 9 | The social worker did not get very far , but having decided to leave , met the son-in-law returning , outside the flat . |
| 10 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 11 | Nigel Barnes had Kate Kennett as a tutor , but he did not get very far with the evaluative work : |
| 12 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 13 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 14 | He had not got very far with Pilger 's list . |