Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 2 | The end result did n't match up to the pre-race hype . |
| 3 | As a presage , she did n't go up to the top alone . |
| 4 | You do n't go on to the next bit till you 've worked that one out . |
| 5 | ‘ Not all , ’ said Memet , ‘ but we would n't go back to the olive trees — not for ever , not unless we could take our money with us . ’ |
| 6 | Oh they 're going to change the rules that erm , you know there 's two scrumhalfs start on their side of the scrum , well they ca n't come round to the other side . |
| 7 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 8 | The travellers threw missiles , and abandoned some of their vehicles on the road when they could n't get in to the three-day event . |
| 9 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |