Example sentences of "[verb] n't go [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 3 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 4 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 5 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 6 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 10 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 11 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
| 12 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |