Example sentences of "not go [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think I have ever hit ‘ The Wall ’ and I try not to go out too fast .
2 UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " .
3 No you 're not going right up there .
4 The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either .
5 Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less .
6 On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish .
7 ‘ You 're not going back there yet . ’
8 Well you 're not going back there tomorrow are you ?
9 He was a big fit man but he realised he could not go on much longer , and his iron resolve began to melt in the face of the powers of nature surrounding him .
10 ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’
11 That will not go on much longer .
12 He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him .
13 Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests .
14 All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough .
15 I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary .
16 This did not go down as well as he might have hoped .
17 I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either .
18 Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus .
19 The enemies ' questions are the easy ones , though the answers will not go down too well .
20 This , perhaps , might not go down too well in Scotland where he will find firms of chartered surveyors more than ready to rise to the challenge .
21 But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers .
22 That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit .
23 Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well .
24 was w would not go down very well , i it , it would mean overturning the whole emphasis of policy and it would mean going against So you , A you would have to change your policy , B you would have to force the process .
25 The annual replacement of the fuel rods a month later did not go too well either .
26 The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent .
27 Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame .
28 If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence .
29 The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that .
30 He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often .
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