Example sentences of "[verb] n't go [adv] [adv] [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 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 3 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 7 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 8 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , household expenses do n't go away just because you 're in hospital or ca n't work for any length of time . |
| 11 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 12 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 13 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 14 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 15 | They do n't go any faster than that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 19 | and it , and it does n't go anywhere anyway cos they 'd of |
| 20 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 21 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 22 | ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said . |
| 23 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |