Example sentences of "[vb past] not go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 2 | Prosecutors agreed not to go ahead with the case , in return for Chieke pleading guilty to separate , less serious matters , for which he is now serving 12 years in prison . |
| 3 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 4 | Angalo was the same , but more than being Outside he hated not going fast . |
| 5 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 6 | However , she finally decided not to go ahead with the lawsuit . |
| 7 | It was considered by Nether Wyresdale Parish Council at their recent meeting but they decided not to go ahead and place an order because the prices were far too expensive . |
| 8 | He closed the door , paused outside Gesner 's dressing room , then decided not to go in . |
| 9 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 10 | Some time during the afternoon they decided not to go back but to stay overnight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | He suddenly decided not to go home to the cottage he shared with his widowed mother . |
| 14 | I forgot about the danger and decided not to go home . |
| 15 | Then the buyer lost money because of the Gulf crisis , and the price of land was falling so he chose not to go through with the contract . |
| 16 | When I got out of hospital I dared not go outside . |
| 17 | The wife dared not go by , but took out her pipes and played on them . |
| 18 | Somehow , my visit to the Sign of the Pestle had caused the attack on me so I dared not go back there . |
| 19 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 20 | We indulged ourselves with some jars of Marmite and bitter marmalade ( which proved not to go well with rice ) and an emergency medicinal bottle of Grand Marnier . |
| 21 | The town had been largely burnt and rebuilt ; it looked uninteresting and , as there was a lot of work to be done on board , I did not go ashore . |
| 22 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 23 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 24 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 25 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 26 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned . |
| 29 | He asked whose side I was on , and when I told him I was strongly opposed to Bodyline he said he thought it would be better if I did not go on with it . |
| 30 | But it was safer if Nona did not go on and dig this out of him . |