Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far . ’ |
| 2 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far … |
| 3 | Somehow , my visit to the Sign of the Pestle had caused the attack on me so I dared not go back there . |
| 4 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 5 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 6 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 7 | ‘ You did not go on ahead ? ’ |
| 8 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 9 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 10 | She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . |
| 11 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 12 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 13 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 14 | Mrs Hirst , who is the chairman of a local disabled charity group , believed these steps were important , but she thought they did not go far enough . |
| 15 | These measures were welcomed , but many felt they did not go far enough . |
| 16 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 17 | All these three new developments are in the direction which this book advocates , but they do not go nearly far enough . |
| 18 | In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads . |
| 19 | LUSTY lovers have one complaint about video sex guides — they do not go far enough . |
| 20 | The privatisations also help , even if they do not go far enough . |
| 21 | But , they do not go far enough . |
| 22 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 23 | They do not go there directly . |
| 24 | Modulations towards keys on the sharp side of the ‘ circle of fifths ’ are good , providing they do not go too far . |
| 25 | He did not go any further into the room but stood in the door keeping a watchful eye on Evans . |
| 26 | His policy of moving towards a more liberal regime led to the usual situation which such changes produce , that is , for the reformers he did not go far enough , for the conservatives he went too far . |
| 27 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 28 | I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight . |
| 29 | His mother , Barbara Edwards , of Cae Gwilym Lane , Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict that he was killed in action because he did not go out there to fight , he went out to keep the peace . ’ |
| 30 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |