Example sentences of "[vb infin] only [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 2 | The air supply is restricted so the combustion zone can spread only so far . |
| 3 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 4 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 5 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |