Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 2 | Christopher did not run to pattern . |
| 3 | Frank did not look to fat — i guess it 's more a question of some people — looking fat — even though they are n't . |
| 4 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 6 | Lunia insisted that Modigliani did not drink to excess , that the stories of his drinking and drug-taking are extremely exaggerated . |
| 7 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |
| 8 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 9 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 10 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 11 | The CMR does not apply to traffic between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 12 | FSA does not apply to advice given by a person to another person ( ie it is excluded ) if : |
| 13 | Addition of combinations of two NTPs other than GTP plus UTP did not lead to complex-stabilization ( not shown ) , corroborating that these were the two initiating NTPs for both promoters . |