Example sentences of "[not/n't] go for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 2 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 3 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 4 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 5 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 6 | Yep I 've decided I 'm not going for that Audi Matt |
| 7 | Remember that we are adjusting to the track rhythm , not going for all-out speed yet — that would be risky . |
| 8 | she says we 're just not gon na be able to use drawers that 's all she said I 'm not going for another bed |
| 9 | Hope he 's not going for any drinking . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , as Ian Harper reveals in Personal Finance , that too places unconscionable constraints on those companies that wish to grow and more may be forced to follow Scottish Equitable 's example of doing a deal with a big external investor , if not go for wholesale demutualisation . |
| 11 | Philip Healey , Acquisitions Monthly editor , said UK companies do not go for smaller acquisitions out of choice . |
| 12 | And this is quite unique when you go to South Africa and you see what 's happening that black leaders and blacks do not go for quick votes and quick solutions , we 're not trying to keep , tu turn people against whites . |
| 13 | ‘ Do not go for lonely walks while I am away . ’ |
| 14 | It is on its way out , but it has not gone for good — yet . |
| 15 | Obviously we have n't gone for wholesale personnel changes , so you 're the hook on which we 're hanging the idea , a new programme manager whose own image is the station 's — young , smart , sophisticated and committed to the music . |
| 16 | I said and before you start that the caravan ca n't go for four years , on this tape . |
| 17 | I do n't even know whether she used the flat , or whether she changed her mind and did n't go for one reason or another . ’ |
| 18 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |
| 19 | But people do n't but th they do n't go for that they go for that because they do n't like the taste of chlorine . |
| 20 | Do n't go for that one there . |
| 21 | I 'm glad we do n't go for that sort of tree actually . |
| 22 | I do n't go for that child , he 's too big man . |
| 23 | Some women might find him attractive , but she did n't go for loose-limbed , olive-skinned men whose black hair flopped across their foreheads . |
| 24 | The children did n't go for this much , since a meeting usually became necessary just at the point when they needed clean clothes , juice , a hug , or someone to play with and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ Women are a great idea , ’ Crawford had said the previous year , ‘ but I do n't go for this marriage bit . |
| 26 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 27 | I remember there were invitations given out to go to it , sherry party , I had an invitation but I did n't go for some reason |
| 28 | I assure you , I do n't go for scarlet chairs , black carpets and purple and pink curtains , any more than you do . ’ |
| 29 | would n't go for three years for a grant and just |