Sentence examples for gets no further from inspiring English sources
Sophie gets no further than the first note, a sustained midrange C on the word "Oh," before Ms. Daly's Callas abruptly orders her to "stop right there".
Not that they seem to do much actual writing – protagonist Ed, who is working on a novel about homelessness narrated by an imprisoned paedophile, gets no further than tweaking his "false and tame" draft.
In Xavier Giannoli's charming L'Interview (1997), Mathieu Amalric plays a French critic who travels to London to meet her but gets no further than a brief interview via an intercom at her door, receiving dismissive replies to his deeply serious questions.
However, Marx gets no further than deducing categories of alienated labour from each other.
Things take a sad turn for poor Lizzie, though, and she gets no further than Pemberley, in Derbyshire.
Most of the time the argument gets no further than that.
Didn't get no further than his door.
And Switzerland got no further than the group stages.
Jurors got no further than the first two questions, the judge said.
He got no further than the gate and was told never to come back.
Jarrell tried to write an elegy but could get no further than "The shining brown head".
