Example sentences of "not go [adv] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just pushing the ball , my passing shots were not going too well . |
| 2 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 3 | But it 's not going too well for me , Robyn . |
| 4 | She 's not going down well at all , whatever the Senior Management may think . |
| 5 | Oh dear , it 's not going very well , is it ? ’ |
| 6 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 7 | Mm , for a brand new Rolls Royce , it 's not going very well is it ? |
| 8 | Things are not going so well over at Castlereagh Park either just at the moment with Ards manager Paul Malone possibly landing himself in trouble with the authorities . |
| 9 | The exotic land-prepared dishes did not go down well . |
| 10 | My answer did not go down well with the Officer with the lather on his face . |
| 11 | This did not go down well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome . |
| 14 | This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab . |
| 15 | All this jollity , however , did not go down well with our two female gauleiters . |
| 16 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 17 | That connection does not go down well with many people who vote Liberal Democrat . |
| 18 | This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Letterman to bring to bear his feminine understanding on eager actresses , although something tells me that his Californian slightly-absurd-boyish-middle-aged charm will not go down well in Paris . |
| 19 | ( This did not go down well with the Lionisers . |
| 20 | That will not go down well in Scotland . |
| 21 | The opposition to the Bill that we have heard tonight , to the effect that it will make such offences more difficult to prove , will not go down well in the country . |
| 22 | That would not go down well with my constituents or with many people in the south-east of England . |
| 23 | A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby . |
| 24 | The annual replacement of the fuel rods a month later did not go too well either . |
| 25 | Apparently the green movement is worried that the rind may carry pesticides ; a new generation of beer purists dislike the lemon ; and it does not go so well with the heavily sedimented style currently favoured . |
| 26 | On another occasion , things did not go so well , ‘ for at each corner of each box they [ rats ] had made a proper hole for access and in each box was a warm nest of straw and the leaves and stalks of the shrubs . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I was very pleased at the way I ran because despite the fact that my training did not go so well I was only five minutes behind my best ever time . |
| 28 | Johnston said : ‘ Things have not gone very well for me at Everton and I spoke to the gaffer recently about it . |
| 29 | ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’ |
| 30 | Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers . |