Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] far [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good .
2 Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes .
3 But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall .
4 John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead .
5 It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation .
6 Dispersal agents not mentioned so far include fish .
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