Example sentences of "[not/n't] go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 2 | This vision might not always be met but that was no excuse not to go on trying . |
| 3 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mozart wrote often to his wife , admonishing her not to fall in the baths , not to go out walking alone , and not to gamble in the casino . |
| 6 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not going around saying it , ’ said Lydia , ‘ I just wondered , and I said it to you , so if it gets around it 'll be you who did it . ’ |
| 8 | ’ I 'm not going round shaving a jigsaw piece , ’ she said . |
| 9 | He said , nicely , " I am sorry about not going out painting tonight , Alice . |
| 10 | ‘ The day has come when India should go for new faces and not go on trying with the old ones , who have failed us miserably , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The only good thing about mistakes is that you 're supposed to learn from them — not go on making them ! ’ |
| 12 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 13 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
| 14 | Since we can not go on struggling with one another indefinitely , Hegel says that one must submit to the other . |
| 15 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 16 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 17 | Thus a believer begins to ‘ keep God 's word ’ or ‘ walk as Christ walked ’ ( 2:5,6 ) : ‘ he does not go on sinning , because God 's seed remains in him , and he can not go on sinning , because he is born of God ’ ( 3:9 ) . |
| 18 | Thus a believer begins to ‘ keep God 's word ’ or ‘ walk as Christ walked ’ ( 2:5,6 ) : ‘ he does not go on sinning , because God 's seed remains in him , and he can not go on sinning , because he is born of God ’ ( 3:9 ) . |
| 19 | Secondly , some are concerned that they can not go on plundering our planet without costs escalating , and thirdly others realize that international laws are here to stay , so they may as well accept them . |
| 20 | ‘ Comrade Vajda , ’ he said , ‘ you can not go on studying two imperialistic languages . |
| 21 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 22 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Anxiety symptoms do not go on increasing indefinitely . |
| 24 | Whether one defines a conductance or introduces a friction term they are just two different ways of expressing the empirical fact that the electrons ' velocity does not go on increasing indefinitely in response to a driving electric field . |
| 25 | Alice could not go on playing . |
| 26 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |
| 27 | Of course , I love the theatre or I would not go on doing it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What 'll we do ? ’ asked Tim after a short silence ; even he had to admit that a lady would not go away leaving behind all her credit cards and a wad of paper money . |
| 29 | Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors . |
| 30 | However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 . |