Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I faithfully promised not to breathe a word to ‘ my friend ’ , went back to the room and sought Brian 's opinion . |
| 2 | The increase in complaints may have something to do with the fact that we believe that it is important that if someone has not received the care to which he thinks he is entitled from the NHS , his right to complain should not be a well-kept secret , as has too often happened in the past . |
| 3 | Another claim is that a certain State has not become a party to a treaty , and therefore can not share in the distribution of values projected by it . |
| 4 | Muddling along with Stalinism : Marlies Menge visits an East Berlin family which has not joined the exodus to the West |
| 5 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 6 | While the market as a whole has shrunk over the past five or six years as the generational pattern of collecting and dealing has shifted , it did not see the boom prices of the 1980s and therefore has not experienced the recession to the same degree as some other areas . |
| 7 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 8 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 9 | HO HUM , LOOK AT MY TUM : Despite all her holidays , diets and workouts Fergie just has n't got the stomach to really fight the flab and win the battle of the bulge |
| 10 | you see up to now she has n't had a chance to okay maybe it 's erm |
| 11 | Allen said he agreed not to bring the children to his house and abided by her rules , including only visiting the children in the hallway of Farrow 's flat . |
| 12 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 13 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 14 | On leaving the voting station , electors are requested not to reveal the result to those who have yet to vote . |
| 15 | Striving hard for some normality , she pulled her head back and told him , ‘ I d-did n't say a word to anyone about — about us . ’ |
| 16 | Facing considerable opposition , the Bush adminstration decided not to submit the convention to the Senate for ratification . |
| 17 | BA was given the green light for the move yesterday when President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine decided not to refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 18 | ‘ How would you like to 'ave to show your legs in an orphanage just because you 'ad n't got a farthing to your name ? ’ |
| 19 | I know nothing about his treatment of women ; erm all I know about is that he chose not to elect a woman to the cabinet . |
| 20 | Taking advantage of Guy 's momentary stupefaction , she wriggled out from under him and leapt off the bed , everything forgotten but the need to escape from something she dared not put a name to . |
| 21 | He even preferred not to put the question to the vote in 1952 after Stalin 's offer of unification in exchange for neutrality for fear that the Germans might well be tempted by that option . |
| 22 | He did not give the money to charity . |
| 23 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 24 | The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation . |
| 25 | Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory . |
| 26 | The accused has not appropriated a thing in action , because the bank did not owe the money to anyone . |
| 27 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 28 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 29 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 30 | He was a rejected favourite who did not relish the advance to power of his rival . |