Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately Anthony usually chose college friends and Nigel did n't really take to bluestocking women . |
| 2 | Stephen did n't much like to be reminded of this in public . |
| 3 | Billy Egan and Terry Place had not quite risen to their ranks , although Egan at least had aspired to . |
| 4 | Ahidjo did not subsequently return to Cameroun , and in the presidential election of January 1984 Biya received a ‘ yes ’ vote of over 90 per cent , which most Camerounians considered to be a genuine indication of his underlying support . |
| 5 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher did n't even talk to me . |
| 7 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |