Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 2 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 3 | These influences will not always incline him to the view that revelation of particular legal or political material is necessarily in the public interest . |
| 4 | Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist . |
| 5 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 6 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 7 | Local GPs and social workers need to know that guaranteed specialist assistance is at hand both day and night and , as distress and despair do not conveniently confine themselves to the hours of nine to five , this means having experienced consultant psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses on call for community work at all times . |
| 8 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 9 | We do n't only get you to the hospital — we get you there alive ! ’ — commercial for a private medical firm |
| 10 | Do n't just leave it to the media and politicians to protest — get up and do it yourself . |
| 11 | Do n't just leave it to the marketing people . |
| 12 | It 's very important that you read widely , both novels and playscripts , and do n't just confine yourself to an exam syllabus . |
| 13 | As for that girl , if it was my father , he would n't just take you to the CRE , he would also give you a good thump . |
| 14 | Do n't worry , I wo n't really throw you to the wolves . |
| 15 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 16 | Behind the myth of the big drinkers like Hughie Gallacher and Jim Baxter , are the people who did n't quite make it to the realm of myth , the lonely bores , the manic depressives , the failed fullbacks and the defeated unfortunates who had to retire early and find a job in the real world . |
| 17 | I demonstrated the knitting of the ‘ sandwich ’ neckline but did n't actually sew it to the garment in class . |
| 18 | you ca n't safely send them to the toilet alone . |