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

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1 If my team finished with 77 or 78 points I would be extremely disappointed not to go up automatically .
2 He had overheard his uncle warning the two maid-servants not to go up there because it was too dangerous .
3 He had decided not to go straight home , or to go to the pub yet .
4 I 'm ringing to tell you not to — not to go ahead tonight .
5 At this first stage , it is essential not to go too fast , but by now most people have already done so ; they have already jumbled the cube and thereby discovered the basic mathematical problem : how do you get back to where you started ?
6 ‘ I told you not to go too fast , ’ said Jason .
7 To take care that in ploughing , the furrows are sufficiently ample and not hurried over , when good land is to be ploughed for fallow , the ploughmen to take care that they do not dip into bad soil , and in the time of rebinning not to go too deep , but to plough lightly just to destroy the weeds , lest if wet weather ensue when they come to sow the seed will be deposited in mud instead of solid soil .
8 ... Alex loved a verbal fight … but he was generally canny enough not to go too far .
9 Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’
10 The wise use of police discretion and the genuine effort not to go too far in their protest on the part of the pickets and demonstrators is the formula for resolution of this aspect of conflict .
11 Take care not to go too far !
12 But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far .
13 Jokes with the younger farm-hands who were wise enough not to go too far with the granddaughter of the boss .
14 you 've not to go back yet .
15 I do n't think I have ever hit ‘ The Wall ’ and I try not to go out too fast .
16 Meanwhile , they 're appealing to women not to go out alone at night .
17 Thousands of children are being warned not to go out alone after an eleven year old girl was raped as she walked to school .
18 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 " .
19 I 'm not going upstairs now .
20 I 'm not going away again .
21 His other was on holiday , though he and his mother were not going away anywhere , in spite of what the doctor had advised , but staying at home and ‘ going out for days ’ .
22 Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it .
23 ‘ Big race not going on here .
24 But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers .
25 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 .
26 G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’
27 Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit .
28 It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought .
29 ‘ Well , my picture 's not going up there , ’ she grumbled to herself .
30 and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm
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