Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ceausescu 's Romania there was no chance of pressing their claim too far . |
| 2 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the working class push their action too far , the apparent neutrality of the state will disappear and the state will act against them . |
| 5 | There are times when the Americans have a tendency to cut corners and push their aircraft too far . |
| 6 | One friend said : ‘ Denise believes that her husband was pushing their daughter too far , too fast , too soon . |
| 7 | Under Augustus or Tiberius Strabo still stated , as an evident fact , that in the study of little-known countries " the Roman writers are imitators of the Greeks and they do not carry their imitation very far , for what they relate they merely translate from the Greeks " ( 3.4.19 ) . |
| 8 | He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could . |
| 9 | Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds . |
| 10 | Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible . |
| 11 | You can be sure that , slump or no slump , the Champenois are n't going to drop their prices very far before they start cutting corners . |
| 12 | They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned . |
| 13 | SEBADOH THINK their best-known-song so far , ‘ Gimmie Indie Rock ’ , is only really good for two listens . |
| 14 | They cast their lines not far off-shore , and appeared to take excellent catches of fish . |
| 15 | Being mostly mechanical in operation , these recorders had their limitations as far as accuracy was concerned . |
| 16 | An approach described by Gup and Norwood ( 1982 ) may offer the basis of the method needed , even though they were not attempting to push their analysis as far as that implied here . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |