Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not go " in BNC.

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1 A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby .
2 If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) .
3 Many people felt that the Thorneycroft/Mountbatten reorganization did not go far enough , and that Service Departments should have been abolished and a completely functional organization adopted .
4 Ultimately there are more things in life than canoeing ; unfortunately we had allowed things to become part of what should have been a purely personal outing in a boat ; in doing this we had ensured that our attempt did not go ahead .
5 It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " .
6 Table 4.3 tells us where the funds did not go .
7 When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) .
8 A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time .
9 But his talent did not go entirely unnoticed .
10 Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still .
11 Most snakes do not go this far .
12 Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey .
13 Edward did not go to school with other children .
14 Conservatives worried about the budget deficit implications of the proposed cut while the many liberals in congress were convinced that the cut did not go far enough .
15 In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP .
16 It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’
17 A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices .
18 However , teenagers do not go out saying to themselves that they are going to smash a couple of telephone boxes or fight another group of teenagers .
19 Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers .
20 The interview did not go as the interview with MacQuillan 's mistress had gone and Rain was soon climbing ashore , silently cursing Crystal Daly 's gullibility .
21 I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either .
22 Vlasov 's spirited handling of his army in the Moscow counter-offensive did not go unnoticed .
23 Needless to say , this dogma did not go unchallenged .
24 Even then the defendant does not go free — he is confined in a mental hospital until the Home secretary authorises his release .
25 In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold .
26 The Old Testament does not go in for saints .
27 The Bond organisation , however , succeeded in securing a ‘ deposit ’ of A$1.2billion from Bell Resources for the brewery business , which Mr Spalvins has insisted must be repaid if the Lion Nathan deal does not go through .
28 All percussion has a pervasive sound and even when played quietly the effect of one instrument does not go unnoticed .
29 Erm , for a variety of reasons Chair , that proposal did not go ahead , erm , and I think probably the major reason in that was erm , the County Council 's erm , inability to , to meet the cost of the project as it started to , to set up .
30 A case of Andy goes to Hollywood or , in the event of blanks being fired , Scotland do not go to America next year for the World Cup finals .
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