Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ... Alex loved a verbal fight … but he was generally canny enough not to go too far . |
| 2 | Jokes with the younger farm-hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss . |
| 3 | This suggests that either educational reform has just not gone far enough or that , although improved educational standards constitute an important development goal , they can only be effective when accompanied by structural changes in the rest of society . |
| 4 | This was in itself , however , of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension , and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns . |
| 5 | Of course , things did not always go so smoothly . |
| 6 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 7 | In this case it will be as well not to use the bass drum and cymbals simultaneously ( they do not really go particularly well together ) , so that the cymbals can be played in the proper way , one held in each hand . |
| 8 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 9 | The CBI does not even go this far : Sir Michael Angus , its president , says that compliance with the code should not be a listing requirement because of excessive bureaucracy . |
| 10 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 11 | I have two years on my contract and I 'm not about to go anywhere else . ’ |
| 12 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 13 | President Mitterrand emphasised that improvements to the European infrastructure and the transport network had not yet gone far enough , a view echoed by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | And er she just never went anywhere else and gave up . |
| 15 | Well not necessarily that , I mean , people buy when they go , I mean , I 've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze and er |
| 16 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 17 | We do n't feel we could really realistically go any further within the context of the strategy again with the alterations it is placed within . |
| 18 | It does n't always go so smoothly . |
| 19 | The ball bounced their way , but sometimes it did n't quite go far enough . |
| 20 | I think , I think in fact you 're , you 're not having the problems that we 're having where it 's very difficult so you 've got er a really nice representation but have n't quite gone far enough . |
| 21 | And I ai n't never going away again . ’ |
| 22 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 23 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 24 | The last one is based on the popular song O du lieber Augustin and its exaggerations ( knowing ‘ how far to go too far ’ in Cocteau 's famous phrase ) bring it close to the kind of waltz parody found in the Valses bourgeoises by Lord Berners ( Unicorn-Kanchana , 1/79 — sadly now deleted ) . |
| 25 | But , asks Bayle , why not go further still ? |
| 26 | And if they do , they very often go under just the same . |
| 27 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |