Example sentences of "[not/n't] even [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 2 | But the opposition parties demanded their return , and the king had to promise that they would not be used except defensively , not even to eject Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 3 | Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’ |
| 4 | It was rumoured that Alam wanted Khomeini executed in 1963 but other religious leaders prevailed upon the Shah not even to put him on trial . |
| 5 | And he answers : ‘ Not even to talk . |
| 6 | He never wants to go out with me , not even to see his parents , who live nearby . |
| 7 | His closeness gave her comfort , and she knew she would n't have dared to venture here alone — not even to see a thousand kiwis . |
| 8 | to misinterpret religious people 's behaviour and commitment ; 2. to take literally what may have been intended metaphorically or symbolically ; 3. not even to see the possibility of the truth of religious concepts . |
| 9 | He was a man whom , by rights , she ought not even to like . |
| 10 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 11 | Not to fall or slip , not even to throw oneself , but to be thrown . |
| 12 | " Not even to learn to read and write . |
| 13 | He 'd never lie still enough … not even to file it , and that 'ud be a long business . ’ |
| 14 | It worked , I got through without being asked any questions , not even to produce a membership card ! |
| 15 | Not even to reply ! |
| 16 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 17 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 18 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 19 | And that was what now she often felt the need of to think ; well not even to think . |
| 20 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 21 | Better not even to think of it . |
| 22 | The ‘ Naith ’ of Lórien , though , across the second river , is Heaven ; the company undergoes a kind of death in getting there , while there is a feeling of significance in the fact that they may not touch the water , not even to have their ‘ stains ’ washed away . |
| 23 | It allows people not even to understand when they are being irrational . |
| 24 | that he 's not even to phone the place . |
| 25 | I 'm not running another 20 , not even to win a bet or to please a dying grandmother ! |
| 26 | Should never be allowed near a recording studio , not even to make the tea . |
| 27 | But I 've noticed that in the last few days you 've been careful not even to come close tome . |
| 28 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 29 | Feeling small and lousy , not knowing what to do ; fit for nothing , not even to stick out your hand . |
| 30 | He said that the map showed the route from Durness to Inverness as passing by Dounreay , Thurso and Wick , a journey he would never undertake ‘ not even to boost my travel allowance . ’ |