Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you do n't hear the milk boiling over , you wo n't dash to the rescue in the nick of time . |
| 4 | He did n't look to the end of the letter first . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |
| 8 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 9 | This will ensure that they do n't sink to the bottom during cooking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well she might think oh you do n't go to the door at night . |
| 14 | Did you know a bloke called er you did n't go to the kind of big school though ? |
| 15 | Well I could n't go to the bottom of the table because of the Eeeuk ! |
| 16 | Well I would n't go to the shop on Sunday anyway . |
| 17 | She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’ |
| 18 | He did n't go to the trouble of setting up a little love-nest for nothing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , I would n't go to the trouble of lying to you . ’ |
| 20 | Luke would n't come to the sea in the finish . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Except that we wo n't get to the South of France now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She ca n't get to the Camp by going that way because of the Swamp . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 30 | Since the Koons works did n't conform to the definition of parody that the work parodied has to be either known to the viewer or acknowledged by the parodist the court concluded that Koons simply made the sculptures to make money : ‘ … |