Example sentences of "not go [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try not to go on the defensive . |
| 2 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 3 | It does need teaching , though we must be careful not to go to the opposite extreme , as many courses do , and patronizingly treat adult learners like new-born babes . |
| 4 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 5 | You 'll promise not to go to the next race , on Monday , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | There 's no excuse for them not to go into the medical practice booklet because they 've got fifteen thousand patients or thereabouts . |
| 7 | Sometimes the child is warned not to go beyond the specified page until the next interview . |
| 8 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
| 9 | And then I know full well that I 'm well within the guidelines of not going over the thirteen amp that this is designed to operate at maximum efficiency and safety . |
| 10 | Calatin sat back in his chair and stared at the three strangers in his house and said , ‘ Oh dear , you 're not going into the Far Future ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's not going into the current Sierra or 1993 's CDW27 Sierra replacement . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're not going on the big dipper . |
| 13 | You 're not going in the front Bryony , you 're going in the back beside Richard . |
| 14 | The corporation hopes miners will take the redundancy and not go through the lengthy procedure . |
| 15 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 16 | Anna did not go to the front door but round the back . |
| 17 | Both of these places are within walking distance of Docklands but I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 18 | But I did not go to the Great British Beer Festival . |
| 19 | " Well , why not go to the local bingo round here , " somebody suggests . |
| 20 | People living under oppression can not go to the British embassy and seek an entry clearance document , present it to an airline office , take a plane to this country and then seek political asylum . |
| 21 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not go for the peaked caps , epaulettes and dummy holsters , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 24 | Hammond did not go on the Irish expedition of 1649 , but remained on active service ; unlike Fairfax , he took part in the pre-emptive invasion of Scotland the following year . |
| 25 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |
| 26 | For this reason the present analysis does not go beyond the mid 1970s . |
| 27 | Revenues generated by this channel did not go through the joint venture , rather through Kam Circuits , which contributed to its good performance . |
| 28 | Mr Burtt has asked my advice on payment of the enclosed invoice for £690 for an order raised by Mrs Gregory which did not go through the agreed procedures , and which exceeds the total amount available for all staff . |
| 29 | In other words , at the factor prices ruling , the demand for factors is such that the constraint on capital is binding but not the constraint on labour ( we do not go into the dynamic adjustment process by which this rationed equilibrium has been reached ) . |
| 30 | I will not go into the extreme technicality of the proposed constitution since it is now only a matter for constitutional historians . |