Example sentences of "go too far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps , too , someone may lack the power to defend his rights , or he may go too far in his own defence . |
| 3 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 4 | Of course , people can go too far , get too obsessed . |
| 5 | ‘ One day he will go too far . ’ |
| 6 | He may go too far for his capabilities and get too tired to walk back safely . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't go too far now , Patrick , ’ he thought to himself . |
| 8 | But do not go too far . |
| 9 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 10 | I wish , like Arthur or King Stephen , I could tell you that I will return when the hour comes round again ; that , one day in the future , some public relations executive , some politician or health fascist , some snivelling egalitarian with dandruff in his eyebrows , some stunted corporatist with a filthy mind will go too far , and with a bright flash , a smell of freshly-oiled leather and the sound of a celestial whip cracking , I will once more be among you , eyes blazing , tongue wagging ten to the dozen , and in my bronzed and muscular arms a lovely cornucopia of drugs , women and vulgar abuse . |
| 11 | I did n't go too far , truly . |
| 12 | Omelettes ( you can not go too far wrong with an omelette , unless it is made with cheese , so no cheese , please ) |
| 13 | ‘ But see to it that you do n't go too far , and try always to be in the house when you think you might be needed . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of these days he 'll go too far ! ’ |
| 16 | When hunting , they fly hard and fast , but a trained bird will never go too far from the falconer and the promise of more food . |
| 17 | Should he go too far , the only repercussion , so long as he remains powerful , is for some of the village members to leave the village . |
| 18 | At the same time , one can not go too far with this . |
| 19 | It is important obviously that you do n't go too far with these techniques . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " I do n't see how you can go too far , in the right direction , " said Clara , not for the sake of saying it , but because , on some level , she profoundly believed it to be true . |
| 22 | I did go too far I suppose . |
| 23 | ‘ How many times must I tell you that if you let things go too far , nobody can stop what will undoubtedly happen ? |
| 24 | Maybe today the Monster will go too far , maybe today Pa 's eyes will be opened . |
| 25 | Modulations towards keys on the sharp side of the ‘ circle of fifths ’ are good , providing they do not go too far . |
| 26 | A potential danger is that the trend away from the identification and analysis of planation surfaces could go too far so that insufficient attention is accorded to these remnants in the landscapes of areas dominated by formerly extensive landsurfaces . |
| 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 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 30 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |