Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] go very far [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
2 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
3 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
4 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
5 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |