Example sentences of "[noun pl] did [adv] go " in BNC.

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1 A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby .
2 As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily .
3 Table 4.3 tells us where the funds did not go .
4 Because motor cars did n't go at great speeds and nobody would dream of taking a motor car to Edinburgh when the railway was there and could get you in Edinburgh within three quarters of an hour .
5 I got out , the kids did n't go in a home , and I was still using .
6 In the more remote localities Bolshevik officials , desperate for transport facilities , ‘ ignored NEP and all its works , and commandeered right and left as if military Communism [ War Communism ] was still pure and undefiled ’ , yet another indication that military methods did not go completely out of fashion with the advent of NEP .
7 And did you say your brothers did n't go there though , they went to a different school ?
8 America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly .
9 If tax-relief-induced donations did not go to pay for mainline social service functions and elected representatives still felt it necessary to continue to provide them , they would have a lower tax base on which to raise the revenue .
10 Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well .
11 Nails did not go into the shop but stood looking up the road .
12 Well those potatoes did n't go bad .
13 Greatly daring , as Non-conformists even in the war years did not go lightly into an Anglican Church , I went in and sat down .
14 These pieces did not go unchallenged .
15 The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ .
16 A similar scheme was given outline planning permission in 1989 but the applicants did not go ahead and let the planning permission lapse .
17 The exertions of the opposing armies , air forces and other formations did not go unmatched by those of their supporting information media .
18 I mean if you , in the agricultural depression of the nineteen thirties , that 's a depression that lasted erm , the best part of a decade , you know , but farmers did n't go out of production you know , for about five , six , seven years down the line , because virtually all of their assets were tied up in fixed assets .
19 ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’
20 Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property …
21 ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others .
22 With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . "
23 Things did n't go right in the house so I left and ran away .
24 She felt she should reassure Constance , with a sane and cheerful smile , that such things did n't go on in their street , but Constance reminded her that they did .
25 However , we managed between us to make sure things did n't go according to plan — or to script . ’
26 But the advantage of the book was that things did n't go wrong , he could control his existence , predict , re-write history .
27 And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete .
28 David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them .
29 ‘ I 'm being unfair , gabbling on about me and Maria Luisa when things did n't go right for you and Fernando .
30 Things did not go according to Mr Takeshita 's plan .
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