Example sentences of "not even [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time there is no reason why some areas might not even aspire to the status of nature reserve . |
| 2 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 3 | A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech . |
| 4 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
| 5 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 6 | It does not even occur to the reader that the baby might have cried one year in Singapore and be picked up by its mother a year later in Aden . |
| 7 | ‘ The repository of knowledge , the Matrix , does n't even refer to the war . |
| 8 | Then they signed to Virgin and the Mighty Lemon Drops syndrome struck with a vengeance , ensuring that , up until ‘ Every Beat Of The Heart ’ meandered chartwards , policemen would n't even speak to The Railway Children let alone arrest them . |
| 9 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 10 | ‘ It grieves me think that these drivers , sometimes as many as 60 a week , have to pay to spend the night in this car park but ca n't even go to the loo , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Did n't even go to the committee dear , this one |
| 12 | They do n't even go to the train place — they go the other way , and up the driveway and out of the station . |
| 13 | I mean you ca n't , you ca n't go any , I mean you ca n't even go to the Bridge for er , erm , a meal under a fiver so |
| 14 | She would n't even agree to an engagement . |
| 15 | I mean the old man was well in his seventies and he , he was secondary , you see he never even er , he , he did n't even come to the funeral , Clifford 's funeral and Margaret was very bitter about that . |
| 16 | I suspected that Gillian was getting rid of Wyatt as a way of breaking with her father ( who did n't even come to the wedding , incidentally ) and pointing out to her Mum what she ought to have done years before . |