Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | WFS did not publically declare itself to be affiliated to any independent grass roots campaigns who are actually working on the ground with ordinary people — for example , the Tottenham 3 Campaign , Birmingham 6 Campaign etc . |
| 2 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 3 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use , I talked the matter over with my agent . |
| 4 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use . |
| 5 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 6 | Although Marx and Engels did not systematically apply themselves to crime and its treatment , they too showed some ambivalence in their attitudes to the status of crime under capitalism . |
| 7 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 8 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 9 | ‘ You did n't even say anything to Barbara Coleman ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't really expect it to be like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 11 | And that he did n't really want me to . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be . |
| 13 | In retrospect , he says , ‘ Thatcherism did n't really offer anything to kids at the age of fourteen . |
| 14 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He nodded , the merest inclination of the head , to say , well , he did n't necessarily commit himself to agreeing but that he was n't ruling it out as a might-have-been either . |
| 17 | Well I did n't actually expect you to be in really |
| 18 | I demonstrated the knitting of the ‘ sandwich ’ neckline but did n't actually sew it to the garment in class . |
| 19 | The legislation looks forward to the settled agricultural life of Canaan — Israel 's rebelliousness had not yet condemned her to 40 years in the Sinai peninsula . |
| 20 | They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life . |
| 21 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 22 | At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy . |
| 23 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 24 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |
| 25 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 26 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |