Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 2 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 3 | I did not want to go , but Dana said we had better do as they asked . |
| 4 | She obviously does not want to go above her starting weight if she can help it . |
| 5 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 6 | But he did not want to go . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 8 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 9 | It struck Hoomey then that Nails did not want to go home , even — possibly — that he wanted company . |
| 10 | For one thing , Erik Quistgaard , the present incumbent , does not want to go . |
| 11 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 12 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 13 | We should not want to go slower than 1/200th second because of camera movement and , for a bright day , f8 at 1/200th with ASA 200 rated film will give a result . |
| 14 | You may not want to go further in your job — perhaps the status you have in your social and personal life may prove sufficient . |
| 15 | Observers see the Royal couple no longer enjoy each other 's company and reports reveal Diana did not want to go on the trip . |
| 16 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |
| 17 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 18 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |
| 19 | In truth he did not want to go , for he was tired and saddle-sore , but this day the allies needed accurate news of the enemy so that their response could be certain , fast and lethal . |
| 20 | The more experienced teacher who has used the program several times , on the other hand , will not want to go through lengthy explanations and interrogations by the program amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 21 | " The burial regulations and provision of mourning " , notes Stephen Jones , " make it plain that many a coasting man did not want to go to his maker like his deep-sea brother , sliding down a plank in a canvas sack with the last stitch through his nose " . |
| 22 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 23 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 24 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 25 | She did not want to go to her parents through fear of her father and because she might run into her baby 's father . |
| 26 | Johnson soon wished to leave , and pressed Boswell , who , of his very nature , did not want to go until he had met the Earl . |
| 27 | Strong tides will carry you quickly in a direction you may not want to go . |
| 28 | All she knew was that , unlike Cinderella , she did not want to go to Roman 's ball … |
| 29 | She did not want to go . |
| 30 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |