Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people felt that the Thorneycroft/Mountbatten reorganization did not go far enough , and that Service Departments should have been abolished and a completely functional organization adopted . |
| 2 | Ultimately there are more things in life than canoeing ; unfortunately we had allowed things to become part of what should have been a purely personal outing in a boat ; in doing this we had ensured that our attempt did not go ahead . |
| 3 | But his talent did not go entirely unnoticed . |
| 4 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 5 | Dot did n't go near . |
| 6 | The album did n't go smoothly at all . |
| 7 | Conservatives worried about the budget deficit implications of the proposed cut while the many liberals in congress were convinced that the cut did not go far enough . |
| 8 | A PDS statement said that Amato 's draft programme did not go far enough towards creating a " government of innovation " and did not give sufficient weight to the elimination of corrupt practices . |
| 9 | I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . |
| 10 | Erm , for a variety of reasons Chair , that proposal did not go ahead , erm , and I think probably the major reason in that was erm , the County Council 's erm , inability to , to meet the cost of the project as it started to , to set up . |
| 11 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |
| 12 | But a solvent campaigner who works with abusers said the campaign did n't go far enough . |
| 13 | Not as strong as all that , however ; for if the internal difficulties were eased because the government 's hand was strengthened by the plebiscite , the problems of making the new Constitution work did not go away . |
| 14 | The boy did n't go away . |
| 15 | My first meeting with the senior management did not go well . |
| 16 | At first the plan did not go well . |
| 17 | The mining did not go ahead and Burnett and Hallamshire sold their interests in the area to BP Coal . |
| 18 | ROCKSTAR Elton John certainly made sure that the sun did n't go down on Earls Court recently , as over 16,000 fans flocked to the arena on both nights of his sell out charity concerts . |
| 19 | Proposals to curb litter and waste did not go far enough and would land local authorities with extra bills but no additional resources . |
| 20 | Kinnock 's modernisation did not go far enough , as it was based on old-style labourism and single-party arrogance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Still right in her black jeans you know lucky black did n't go all over it . |
| 23 | It 's the difference between ‘ That presentation did not go well , because you mumbled ’ and ‘ You made a complete prat of yourself in there . ’ |
| 24 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 25 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 26 | But the Colonel had seen to it that his name did not go forward for promotion . |
| 27 | Their cheer did not go far in the brittle morning air but it pleased her . |
| 28 | The Australian singer 's manager , Mr Ray East , said Donovan would accept payment of the remainder over 18 months in a gesture aimed at ensuring that the magazine did not go out of business . |
| 29 | He would time it just right and throw himself in front of the branch line train , he knew the train did n't go very fast but it would do … |
| 30 | Months passed ; the feeling did not go away . |