Example sentences of "[not/n't] even [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 2 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 3 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 4 | Yet it needs to make good the outdated complex , which is not even geared to withstanding bad weather . |
| 5 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
| 6 | STA SODON The worst feelings which do not even lead to suicide |
| 7 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 8 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 9 | Some of honest and good heart would not even speak to a Christian as late as the mid-third century , by which date the Christian story and way of life had become well known , because they suspected them of enormities . |
| 10 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 11 | He would not even speak to her . |
| 12 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 13 | In time there is no reason why some areas might not even aspire to the status of nature reserve . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's all I had from Dilys on her death bed — and not even sent to me , neither ! |
| 15 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 16 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 17 | I 'm not even speaking to you because of that flipping letter . |
| 18 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 19 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 20 | He had maintained that ‘ some of these bases do not even answer to strategic necessities in connection with the possibility of a world war , but simply serve for the imperialist domination of the peoples concerned , the subjection of nations and the combating of movements of national liberation ’ . |
| 21 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 22 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 23 | Is it usual to understand anyone — I 'm not even referring to my enigmatic self — at one 's second meeting ? ’ |
| 24 | Vendors are jury-rigging tests , leaning heavily on the old SpecMarks of the Unix workstation crowd though they 're not even ported to NT . |
| 25 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 26 | So basically they 've broken their contract with me and he 's not even responded to that letter . |
| 27 | not even want to and see what happens next time yo you get it up . |
| 28 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 29 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 30 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |