Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] to terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 2 | And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done . |
| 3 | At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls . |
| 4 | ‘ Over two packs a day , very foolish for a diabetic , but she had n't come to terms with the illness at that stage , and was quite defiant about a number of things , Professor Rankin tells me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 6 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 7 | I have n't come to terms with the bloke I killed yet , but when I do , it will be frightening . |