Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , comedians adapted the words to ‘ Do n't go down the mine , Daddy , there 's plenty coal in the cellar ’ . |
| 2 | The exotic land-prepared dishes did not go down well . |
| 3 | But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . |
| 4 | My answer did not go down well with the Officer with the lather on his face . |
| 5 | This did not go down well . |
| 6 | This remark did not go down well with Alcuin , who thought he was being criticized , but we can see what it meant to the late ninth-century writer who reported it . |
| 7 | I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . |
| 8 | But Doherty , 22 , of Dublin , did not go down without a fight and doggedly pursued Hendry all afternoon . |
| 9 | This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab . |
| 10 | All this jollity , however , did not go down well with our two female gauleiters . |
| 11 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |
| 12 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 13 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 14 | ( This did not go down well with the Lionisers . |
| 15 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 16 | A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby . |
| 17 | Rapid accumulation maintained expanding markets — much extra output consisted of means of production bought by capitalists — so that demand shortage did not pull down prices and hence push up real wages . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 19 | He was usually available for comment and did not talk down to journalists . |
| 20 | Radio Moscow World Service quoted Gamsakhurdia as having cancelled talks with the opposition scheduled for Sept. 30 , because " the opposition did not lay down arms " . |
| 21 | The court in the Reference did not lay down a closed list : the public interest was the governing consideration . |
| 22 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 23 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 24 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 25 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 26 | But Father Poole did not sit down . |
| 27 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 28 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 29 | Nu did not set down his impressions till many years later , but they are very similar : |
| 30 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |