Example sentences of "not go down [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The exotic land-prepared dishes did not go down well .
2 My answer did not go down well with the Officer with the lather on his face .
3 This did not go down well .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab .
7 All this jollity , however , did not go down well with our two female gauleiters .
8 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 .
9 That connection does not go down well with many people who vote Liberal Democrat .
10 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 .
11 ( This did not go down well with the Lionisers .
12 That will not go down well in Scotland .
13 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 .
14 That would not go down well with my constituents or with many people in the south-east of England .
15 A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby .
16 Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " .
17 This did not go down as well as he might have hoped .
18 I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either .
19 Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus .
20 The enemies ' questions are the easy ones , though the answers will not go down too well .
21 This , perhaps , might not go down too well in Scotland where he will find firms of chartered surveyors more than ready to rise to the challenge .
22 But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers .
23 That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit .
24 Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well .
25 was w would not go down very well , i it , it would mean overturning the whole emphasis of policy and it would mean going against So you , A you would have to change your policy , B you would have to force the process .
26 She did n't go down easily .
27 But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well .
28 One publication to her name , and a slim book called Helpmeets without irony does n't go down well with today 's feminists .
29 Obviously that did n't go down well with Lineker and he soon announced that he would quit the English game after the Championship finals .
30 It did n't go down well .
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