Example sentences of "n't [verb] to the [noun sg] of " 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 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have n't written to the head of the Linguistics Department . |
| 5 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He did n't look to the end of the letter first . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V . |
| 13 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |
| 14 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 15 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Did you know a bloke called er you did n't go to the kind of big school though ? |
| 19 | Well I could n't go to the bottom of the table because of the Eeeuk ! |
| 20 | She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’ |
| 21 | He did n't go to the trouble of setting up a little love-nest for nothing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Believe me , I would n't go to the trouble of lying to you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Except that we wo n't get to the South of France now . ’ |
| 24 | Any character who does n't get to the top of the hill before the forest does is sucked into the trees , lost forever as one of the damned souls trapped in the translucent trunks . |
| 25 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 26 | But I 've never really known about the Slippery Elm stick , wh , er did n't get to the bottom of it , you know , what it was . |
| 27 | But I did n't get to the point of giving them names , which was just as well , because in the end they both had to go to market . |
| 28 | If you do n't get to the end of it within a couple of days , come to me and I 'm sure I 've got somewhere on my old Mac . |
| 29 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 30 | When I said it would be a waste of time , I was n't referring to the state of your jeep . ’ |