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 Angalo was the same , but more than being Outside he hated not going fast .
4 However , she finally decided not to go ahead with the lawsuit .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road .
8 He suddenly decided not to go home to the cottage he shared with his widowed mother .
9 I forgot about the danger and decided not to go home .
10 When I got out of hospital I dared not go outside .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without .
14 On that morning , North dropped by Paul Thompson 's office , beside Poindexter 's , to tell him the gist of his conversation with Meese , ‘ that it did not go well ’ .
15 IBM and Microsoft developed OS/2 together , as they had previously done with DOS , but sales did not go well — the latest claim from IBM is one million copies sold .
16 Perhaps because of all this extra strain , the tour did not go well for Noreen after this .
17 In 1795 , Piper was promoted to Lieutenant and returned to Sydney but things did not go well for him .
18 If things did not go well he took full responsibility .
19 Their tutorials did not go well .
20 It 's the difference between ‘ That presentation did not go well , because you mumbled ’ and ‘ You made a complete prat of yourself in there . ’
21 My first meeting with the senior management did not go well .
22 If the discussions did not go well it would be his responsibility to organise ‘ mass struggles and freedom fights ’ .
23 The two observations did not go well with each other .
24 At first the plan did not go well .
25 The trial did not go well for Justine .
26 These negotiations did not go well , however , and by 1985 the PUK were again in rebellion .
27 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 ’ ) .
28 She did not go straight to her bed .
29 When he got home to his flat , Greg did not go straight into his bedroom .
30 He did not go straight to his destination .
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