Example sentences of "we [modal v] [not/n't] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 2 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 3 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 4 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 5 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 6 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 7 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 8 | ‘ We must not go too far , ’ said Holmes . |
| 9 | Yes , of course , and there has to be a balance , and we must n't go too far to one extreme . |
| 10 | But perhaps we might not go there again — for a while anyway . ’ |
| 11 | Cal did n't turn round from the front seat , but Mrs Fry said , ‘ We could n't go on playing Scrabble in the rain when we knew you 'd gone off like that , and your parents sounded so dreadful on the phone . |
| 12 | We could n't go on pretending that the first forty-seven years of Alex 's life had n't happened . |
| 13 | The boss said we could n't go outside because employment inspectors would catch us , and so everyone was fed and slept in the factory . |
| 14 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 15 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 16 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 17 | They was at the gate , so we could n't go in . |
| 18 | One thing we were sure of : we could n't go back . |
| 19 | And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to . |
| 20 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 21 | We could n't go home for a month . |
| 22 | we could n't go anyhow . |
| 23 | ‘ The workload for both Barry Newbery and myself was tremendous , we both felt we could not go on much longer , and suggested that a third Designer be included on the team . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We dare n't go so far . |
| 25 | ‘ We need n't go tonight , ’ he said hopelessly . |
| 26 | But he said : ‘ We need not go on confirming that day after day . |
| 27 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 28 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 29 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 30 | We shall not go there . |