Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't go [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We dare n't go so far . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 11 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 12 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't go that far , ’ she said coolly . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I would n't go that far . |
| 15 | I would n't go that far ! |
| 16 | I would n't go that far . |
| 17 | I would n't go so far ( that would be to devalue all the peaks in the interim ) — but the single is stupendous . |
| 18 | I would n't go so far . ’ |
| 19 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
| 20 | I would n't go so far as to say there 's no skill , because if you do have skill in identifying draws , then you 'll increase your chances of winning by using your skill in identifying those draws , but how much you win depends very heavily on how many draws there are and how many other people choose those same draws . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | I just ca n't go that far away , not overnight or … |
| 23 | things or they some wo n't go that far . |
| 24 | But anti hunt lobby say they wo n't go that far . |
| 25 | ‘ Produce your bit of paper , ’ he rapped out , ‘ and , although I wo n't go so far as to give your eventual marriage my blessing , at least I 'll let it run its natural course . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |