Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy did not immediately go downstairs but went to her own room . |
| 2 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 3 | On this night he did not then go straight to bed . |
| 4 | Of course , things did not always go so smoothly . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that ‘ if only ’ implies that things could be different , they do not actually go away when the ideal conditions are achieved , they just surface in a new guise . |
| 6 | Others have been suggested : to prevent the conduct of government business being unduly hampered and delayed by ‘ excessive ’ litigation ; to reduce the risk that civil servants will behave in over-cautious and unhelpful ways in dealing with citizens for fear of being sued if things go wrong ; to ration scarce judicial resources ; to ensure that the argument on the merits is presented in the best possible way , by a person with a real interest in presenting it ( but quality of presentation and personal interest do not always go together ) ; to ensure that people do not meddle paternalistically in the affairs of others ( query : can representative applicants be accused of this ? ) ; to ensure that the applicant has a personal interest not just an ideological concern in the outcome ( but , query , may not a genuine concern for the interests of others be neither purely personal nor purely ideological ? ) . |
| 7 | The two do not always go together and experts who combine the two are in short supply . |
| 8 | In this case it will be as well not to use the bass drum and cymbals simultaneously ( they do not really go particularly well together ) , so that the cymbals can be played in the proper way , one held in each hand . |
| 9 | ‘ We have seen people go into the forest from the Ridgery but they do not often go alone like you . |
| 10 | But the appetite for rough justice which the gun-toting sheriff satisfied does not easily go away . |
| 11 | The CBI does not even go this far : Sir Michael Angus , its president , says that compliance with the code should not be a listing requirement because of excessive bureaucracy . |