Example sentences of "[vb past] n't go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They did n't go round like that they were very loners as you would say .
2 You know you would n't know there was houses there if you did n't go up there and see mm .
3 All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock .
4 We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that .
5 This did n't go down quite as well .
6 With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . "
7 She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys .
8 I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill .
9 I did n't go out again until Ken stormed in and said he 'd found Nicola . ’
10 ‘ You did n't go out yesterday or the day before , I know .
11 ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera .
12 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
13 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
14 My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval .
15 She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind .
16 He would time it just right and throw himself in front of the branch line train , he knew the train did n't go very fast but it would do …
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