Example sentences of "not go [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 2 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 4 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 5 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 6 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 7 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 9 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 14 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 15 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
| 16 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 17 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 18 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 19 | They are n't moody ; they do n't go in for sexual harassment |
| 20 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 22 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 23 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 24 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 25 | They do n't go in for this sort of thing . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |