Example sentences of "was not to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same spirit he supervised the harnessing of the horses , the carrying down of the dressing-case and boots and clothes and papers , the safe depositing of the plate and linen and two locked trunks — it was the hour for promenading in Keswick and Mr Wood 's conducting of this orchestra was not to go unremarked . |
| 2 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 3 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 4 | This state of affairs was not to go unchallenged . |
| 5 | I left instructions he was not to go home on his own . |
| 6 | You know , I mean I know he said that the best thing , decision we ever made was not to go to erm Raynes Park because the wicket really has deteriorated on that , but he has a lot of contacts and things . |