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

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1 One did not need to go up into space to see that Earth 's resources should be used ( though not used up ) for all its inhabitants .
2 I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance .
3 Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon .
4 Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores .
5 You name them , he 's served them , and now Richard , head waiter at Martha 's Vineyard , at the Kirklevington Country Club , Yarm , can not wait to go back to Beverly Hills and the good life .
6 Er because I do n't have a group of accountants in front of me I 'm not going to go on about debits and credits and so on and so forth .
7 The Danes will not have to go along with plans for a single currency , or with plans for a common Euro-defence policy .
8 Girls remain on the register of their previous schools , and take their chosen exams there , unless they do not wish to go back into school .
9 We were housed in the usual huts , but being this time in the centre of a town , we had paved paths all around us and shaded lights to help us get about at nights , and not having to go out at night to read instruments was a welcome change .
10 Theoretically he does not intend to go back into practice as an accountant , but , he concedes pragmatically , ‘ at the end of the day , with a family , I might just have to be one , whether I like it or not ’ .
11 He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people .
12 Well , having been downgraded to A two from A one erm I said well what else can I volunteer for , cos I did n't fancy going back to work and then being called up again .
13 ‘ Are you saying he did n't want to go up to Luxor ? ’
14 Because I did n't want the kids saying , ah , you have n't got to And I did n't want to go in on Saturday morning either did I ?
15 but it 's , I , I do n't want to go down to work for hours Chris .
16 I do n't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless .
17 ‘ I do n't want to go back to bed ! ’
18 When they returned she did n't want to go back to bed .
19 ‘ I do n't want to go back to Mrs Gutermann 's .
20 I just do n't want to go back to Combe Court .
21 I 'll think what I can do about that ; I do n't want to go back to Security or through Six … when you come down to it how do we know some of the Old Guard in those places are n't involved in this bloody attempt to run the country from the shadows ?
22 At the time it did not matter to us because I did n't want to go out with David .
23 BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey .
24 ‘ Lourdes is out of the question , we do n't need to go back to Lourdes any more .
25 ‘ I do n't envisage going back to nursing .
26 But I ca n't stop to go out for coffee .
27 And then you just do a run , you do n't have to go on to print it at all you just print it off .
28 It is your birthday , after all , and I do n't have to go out to dinner .
29 You do n't have to go back to Gibraltar .
30 I can hardly walk into a lawyer 's office , I 'd be arrested again and I do n't intend going back into prison , not even for a few days . ’
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