Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms .
2 She came round the corner , this tiny thing who did not reach to the top of the bed board even with the extension of the umbrella .
3 Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice .
4 People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed .
5 She did not go to the sea .
6 They did not go to the cinema !
7 She did not go to the station , but she went along the line to the place where the engines stopped .
8 She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling .
9 His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France !
10 Princess Diana did not go to the hideaway in Les Barroux , Provence — spending the weekend privately in London .
11 She did not go to the post office the next evening or the next .
12 But I 'm afraid I did not go to the opera . ’
13 At Place Massena , she entered the gloomy passage to the rue du Bateau , but she did not go to the flat , she turned right and wound through the lanes instead .
14 Monday gave way to Tuesday , the day on which she did not go to the library .
15 He did not go to the Grammar School , as has been stated elsewhere ; but he did go to Dr. Henry Clarke 's mathematical school in Salford , answering four mathematical questions in 1775 , and three the following year .
16 One source said : ‘ There was a remarkably free-flowing and open discussion at the Cabinet subcommittee as the majority of ministers did not go to the meeting with a departmental brief .
17 Flavia did not go to the tower .
18 The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant .
19 Similarly in Newell v. Hicks ( 1983 D.C. ) a false statement offering to supply a free gift with a purchase of goods ( when in fact it was not free ) was held not to fall within section 14 because it was a statement relating to the supply of goods and therefore did not relate to the provision of services or facilities .
20 In Genentech Inc. " s Patent [ 1989 ] , it was held , inter alia , in the Court of Appeal that a patent which claimed the practical application of a discovery did not relate to the discovery as such and was not excluded by section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 even if the practical application might be obvious once the discovery had been made .
21 A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting .
22 Two foreign suspects who did not reply to the judge 's summons will be tried in absentia .
23 He did not reply to the letter I left on his desk until months later , by which time he must have overcome the initial shock my flight must surely have caused him .
24 The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify .
25 McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents .
26 His wife Lavinia , 39 , had asked estate manager Mr Brian Ealey to raise the alarm at 10.20pm when he did not return to the farmhouse .
27 Despite substantial reductions in mortgage interest rates confidence did not return to the marketplace .
28 As night fell , and Weaver did not return to the flat he was sharing , Bodie and Doyle ceased surveillance on the eighth floor and drove the short distance to the house where Liz Spalding was standing guard over the Stone family .
29 The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later .
30 Because the company did not contribute to the pension scheme during the period from 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1992 , the prepayment at 31 March 1992 is £50m ( £200m reduced by regular cost of £50m in each of the three years ) .
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