Example sentences of "not go around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 3 | However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 . |
| 4 | He has confided that he once told Claudia that in real life people do not go around analysing everyday rituals . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not go around public houses asking if my wife is telling me the truth . |
| 6 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 7 | ‘ Do that , and , while you 're about it , try to remember that we 're colleagues , and that colleagues do not go around kissing one another ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've told you before — if you want to keep your place at the vicarage , you ca n't go around saying such unchristian things . |
| 9 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 10 | I ca n't go around looking like this for ever ? ’ |
| 11 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 12 | But do n't go around being so cross . |
| 13 | But do n't go around being cross or you 'll only make enemies for yourself . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't go around saying things like that , ’ she protested . |
| 15 | ‘ They ca n't go around alarming people on the basis of flimsy evidence . ’ |
| 16 | You could n't go around looking like Gwen Evans and hope to remain anonymous . |
| 17 | You ca n't go around calling people murderers , you know . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't go around my friends begging for a home , can I ? |
| 19 | And on the whole they did n't go around poisoning roast geese . |
| 20 | I suppose one reason we 've got on so well , May , is that you do n't go around resenting things and feeling you 're wasted on ordinary mortals . |
| 21 | You ca n't go around poisoning intelligent creatures . ’ |
| 22 | But at least they did n't go around with beatific smiles mumbling about peace and goodwill . ’ |
| 23 | You ca n't go around pushing people to do things that they do n't want to do . |
| 24 | Just because I do n't go around laughing my head off all the time or … or spending money on bunches of flowers too big to fit into the car , it does not mean that I am cross . ’ |
| 25 | They do n't go around trying to frighten people just for pleasure . |
| 26 | I do n't go around making things up just to get myself a story ! ’ |
| 27 | You ca n't go around calling people liars just because their memories are a bit faulty . |
| 28 | I do n't go around killing women . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 30 | if he wears a long sleeve shirt , as soon as he takes his jacket off , he wo n't go around with his shirt |