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

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1 I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages .
2 ’ I 'm not going round shaving a jigsaw piece , ’ she said .
3 It would seem that there is a demand for such assistance as 1 in 5 of all applicants said that they did not go on to take the course because of financial difficulties .
4 Her parents refused consent for an operation to remove the obstruction , although there were no grounds to suppose that if the outcome of the operation was successful , Alexandra would not go on to enjoy a life of some longevity .
5 ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said .
6 Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men .
7 This is because the revolution in East Germany after 1945 changed the structures of power and ownership — but did not go on to change the structure of social relationships .
8 You ca n't go on wearing the willow forever . ’
9 I sha n't go on keeping a diary when I leave here .
10 " It 's not just because of us and because I ca n't go on tricking the Sisters .
11 After all , we did n't go along to have a look at the place . ’
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