Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb infin] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While we welcome their joyriding legislation it does n't even go back to the situation we had previously . |
| 2 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 3 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 4 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 5 | The action does n't quite live up to the presentation : it 's simple overhead-view stuff with no frills , but fun nonetheless . |
| 6 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |
| 7 | I mean , if somebody ca n't actually go back to the person they 've harmed in a in a one to one situation , there 's no reason why they should n't be doing some other form of community service . |
| 8 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |