Example sentences of "their [noun] too far " in BNC.

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1 But the USSR is without outside élites and pressure groups , let alone an electorate , to rescue the careers of those who push their luck too far .
2 If the working class push their action too far , the apparent neutrality of the state will disappear and the state will act against them .
3 There are times when the Americans have a tendency to cut corners and push their aircraft too far .
4 The principal mistake made by students in their studies is to place the aim or object of their work too far into the future .
5 In Ceausescu 's Romania there was no chance of pressing their claim too far .
6 One friend said : ‘ Denise believes that her husband was pushing their daughter too far , too fast , too soon .
7 The aliens and absentees who pushed their claims too far fanned the flames of popular revolt in Sussex in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and bore the brunt of the explosions that followed .
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