Example sentences of "[verb] n't go [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
5 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
6 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
7 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
8 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
9 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
10 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
11 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
12 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
13 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
14 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
15 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |