Example sentences of "n't [verb] to the [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 | ‘ We have n't come to the sea in three years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have n't written to the head of the Linguistics Department . |
| 7 | If you do n't hear the milk boiling over , you wo n't dash to the rescue in the nick of time . |
| 8 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 12 | He did n't look to the end of the letter first . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V . |
| 17 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |
| 18 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | This will ensure that they do n't sink to the bottom during cooking . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You are n't coming to the Pole with me . |
| 23 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well she might think oh you do n't go to the door at night . |
| 27 | Did you know a bloke called er you did n't go to the kind of big school though ? |
| 28 | Well I could n't go to the bottom of the table because of the Eeeuk ! |
| 29 | Well I would n't go to the shop on Sunday anyway . |
| 30 | She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’ |