Example sentences of "[verb] not gone [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 2 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 3 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 4 | The result is a discourse in which certain expressions , such as " the river had not gone away either or the mountains " ( p. 31 ) must be interpreted as " literally " representing the perceptions of the people , whereas for us they would normally have to be interpreted metaphorically . |
| 5 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 10 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 11 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 12 | ‘ I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed , ’ Boaz said . |
| 13 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 14 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |