Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] a [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | you see up to now she has n't had a chance to okay maybe it 's erm |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two other methods , which did not involve a return to the original pasture , were strip grazing , in which sheep were confined to a narrow strip across the field by fences which were moved every few days , and creep grazing , in which a single fence confined the ewes , but since it possessed a " creep " or hole , allowed the lambs to graze forward . |
| 11 | The vote in the 20-member body was tied , however , and senior political leaders from several parties expressed the view that the preliminary decision did not present a bar to further negotiations . |
| 12 | The rest , he said , " did not represent a necessity to us " and were unlikely to be " helpful to our security " . |
| 13 | But it did not bring an end to the speculation and confusion which was rending the civilized world . |
| 14 | After a meeting with the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , in Washington , Britain 's Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , warned that all non-humanitarian goods would be blocked from going into Serbia and Montenegro if the talks did not bring an end to the conflict . |
| 15 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 16 | This did not reflect a desire to be impartial , but recognition that Spain 's objective economic and military weakness precluded any other option at this stage . |
| 17 | Obviously , I did not receive an answer to my question from the Scottish Office and , even under the priority written procedure , I have not yet received an answer from the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 18 | But that did not put a stop to the myths that have always surrounded Earth 's nearest neighbour |
| 19 | The eight-year Iran-Iraq war , which ended in 1988 , did not put an end to the hostility between the two countries . |
| 20 | However , this legislation did not put an end to complaints about military obligation . |
| 21 | The Commonwealth did not put an end to the masque . |
| 22 | This did not put an end to their hunt for a privileged place in allied planning , nor did their efforts go unrewarded . |
| 23 | The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on April 23 that landowners and industrialists whose property was expropriated during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany in 1945-49 did not have a right to its return , and that this was not counter to clauses in the federal Constitution on the right to property and equal treatment before the law . |
| 24 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 25 | Kelly , however , ventured the opinion that asking the manager for a statement on where the club were headed did not constitute a threat to Brady 's position . |
| 26 | However , Japan said that the visit did not mark a return to business as usual , even though Japanese banks and businesses had been rapidly reviving business activities . |
| 27 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
| 28 | Nevertheless the Merovingian civil wars did not pose a threat to the survival of the kingdom . |
| 29 | According to the Swedish authorities they did not pose a risk to the safety of the plant . |
| 30 | This did not imply an end to the CME 's fungible link with SIMEX , but it did signal the realisation that regulatory complications made it unlikely that the mutual offset system could be extended around the globe . |