Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ .
2 It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
3 To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers .
4 But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers .
5 That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit .
6 Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well .
7 If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence .
8 The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that .
9 Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer .
10 Well usually usually not always but just about always he 's at home he has n't gone anywhere so how far away is he zero as well so you get zero zero goes through the origin .
11 Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long .
12 Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will .
13 he says he does n't go out so often but it 's more a question of qality and not quantity … its tough to stay on top but he goes out to Florida most years to train and learn the new techniques
14 I remember we did a live version of ‘ Space Oddity ’ with acoustic guitar , bass and congas and it did n't go down so well . ’
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