Example sentences of "n't [verb] to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dealer exists to sell and since I can only produce two or three pictures a year the flow of the commodity is n't adjusted to the pace of the market . |
| 2 | Obviously I could n't mime to a voice of seventeen years ago , no way on earth ! |
| 3 | ‘ We have n't come to the sea in three years . |
| 4 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |
| 5 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 6 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 7 | Now the thing is we , we can refer to sight and touch and hearing , but we do n't refer to the sense of smell just as smell , in modern English . |
| 8 | I have n't written to the head of the Linguistics Department . |
| 9 | If you do n't hear the milk boiling over , you wo n't dash to the rescue in the nick of time . |
| 10 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |
| 11 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 12 | And I I ca n't understand it and I still have n't got to the bottom of the reason why is doing , seems to me to be doing a lot of work herself |
| 13 | Also , primary schools are more adaptable erm they have n't got the constraints ; they have n't got the syllabuses to get through ; they have n't got exams at the end of the year ; they have n't got to the sort of subject departmentalization that you get in a secondary school . |
| 14 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 15 | He did n't look to the end of the letter first . |
| 16 | It did n't occur to the purchaser of the pure cotton Live Aid souvenir tee-shirt to ponder the fact that the Sudan provides a huge amount of the raw cotton demanded by the cheap tee-shirt industry , yet millions of Sudanese citizens have never had a square meal in their lives . |
| 17 | Sorrel could n't run to the back of an envelope , but found instead a spare section of Filofax pages , just about the most expensive scribble pad you could get short of using ten-pound notes . |
| 18 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 19 | It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V . |
| 20 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |
| 21 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 22 | ‘ The situation with M'tronix went on till ‘ 87 , but I realised around ‘ 86 that I was n't getting to the public with my own stuff ; all I was doing was perpetuating Fender and Marshall 's reputations , because their amps formed the bulk of our work . |
| 23 | This will ensure that they do n't sink to the bottom during cooking . |
| 24 | Granted all that richness and diversity , to talk of language as screen may well seem simply perverse , even ungrateful , but just as we ca n't attend to the patterning without also seeing the patterns , the scenes , so the whole virtuoso performance is counterpointed by a performance of a different kind , the intricately woven language screen . |
| 25 | You are n't coming to the Pole with me . |
| 26 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
| 27 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 29 | I ca n't find fulfilment in peeling carrots , and I do n't thrill to the sound of the supermarket trolley — except in New York where I 'm bewitched by the all-night delis . |
| 30 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |