Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 2 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 3 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 4 | It will not stand up to examination by the electorate in the coming election campaign . |
| 5 | Assessment shows that the rhetoric of community involvement did not stand up to examination in the way that bids were compiled . |
| 6 | Many people wake up in the night with a wonderful " eureka " idea which does not stand up to examination in the cold light of morning . |
| 7 | Do not go on to fill in the objectives list until you and your partner have begun negotiations on your expectations . |
| 8 | ‘ The players need to feel confident and secure in their positions and we are counting on those players who did not come up to expectation against Scotland , to make up for it against Ireland . ’ |
| 9 | He then came home , but was not allowed back to School for another year . |
| 10 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 11 | And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing . |
| 12 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 13 | We used to say that the counsel gave some very tacky performances that would n't stand up to cross-examination from Michael Denison ( star of the 1948 law courts drama , The Blind Goddess ) . |
| 14 | I did n't go back to school after coming out of hospital , I felt that all that potential had gone ; I just stayed at home watching ‘ Rainbow ’ and ‘ Play School ’ . |
| 15 | She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion . |
| 16 | I ca n't drift off to dreamland on a shakedown settee while Eva paces round the flat , watching that Jamie does not slip into coma . |