Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] go in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’
2 The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon .
3 Note that elements of unc do not go in twice .
4 You do n't go in and say — I want three yards of this .
5 I 'm pretty hungry by now but I do n't go in .
6 Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits .
7 I do n't go in for numbers as names .
8 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 . ’
9 ‘ I do n't go in with her , not unless she wants me to .
10 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 .
11 I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me .
12 I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing .
13 ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said .
14 ‘ Yorkshiremen do n't go in for paying compliments , ’ she said .
15 ‘ He must feel he is walking on water at the moment , but come Christmas when the goals do n't go in , what happens then ?
16 ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing .
17 " We do n't go in for flowers , " said Clelia , displaying with a sweep of her arm the lower level , curiously cluttered with urns , a bench , a dislocated piece of mosaic resting on its end , and a functionless fountain .
18 You do n't go in ? ’
19 We do n't go in for presents .
20 Mushroom is respectable too , I should add — but we do n't go in for tans , we 're too worried about skin cancer .
21 Attitudes in second and especially third wave practices were more lukewarm , and I often encountered a sense of resigned determination — ‘ if we do n't go in now , we 'll get left behind . ’
22 ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said .
23 ‘ Well , y'know , Else always was one for washing , she gets it from me , but Sidney , 'e do n't go in for baths much , well men do n't , do they ?
24 I wonder you do n't go in for it . ’
25 ‘ I do n't go in for crystal gazing . ’
26 And we do n't go in for naughtiness .
27 I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’
28 ‘ I do n't go in enough , I know , and my hair — well , it 's not a pretty colour — ’
29 Yeah , I 'm talking about how it arises from the evolution point of view , as an not , I do n't go in at all to the whole neurological question , or how the brain is produced consciously .
30 Apart from the fact that there 's an eleven-year gap in our ages and I do n't go in for cradle-snatching , she happens to be my stepsister . ’
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