Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 2 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 3 | ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’ |
| 4 | Under the new captaincy of Ken Mentle , the club decided not to go all out for the title but simply to consolidate their Premier Division status . |
| 5 | A random sample of new words did not go down well with passersby . |
| 6 | If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 10 | Table 4.3 tells us where the funds did not go . |
| 11 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 12 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
| 13 | But his talent did not go entirely unnoticed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most snakes do not go this far . |
| 16 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 17 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , teenagers do not go out saying to themselves that they are going to smash a couple of telephone boxes or fight another group of teenagers . |
| 23 | Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers . |
| 24 | The interview did not go as the interview with MacQuillan 's mistress had gone and Rain was soon climbing ashore , silently cursing Crystal Daly 's gullibility . |
| 25 | I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . |
| 26 | Vlasov 's spirited handling of his army in the Moscow counter-offensive did not go unnoticed . |
| 27 | Needless to say , this dogma did not go unchallenged . |
| 28 | Even then the defendant does not go free — he is confined in a mental hospital until the Home secretary authorises his release . |
| 29 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 30 | Puddephat 's pompous Who 's Who entry had not gone unnoticed among his enemies . |