Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 2 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 3 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 4 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 5 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 6 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 7 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 8 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 9 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 10 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 11 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 12 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 13 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 16 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 17 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 18 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |