Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludo has not gone to bed . |
| 2 | If it has not turned to yoghurt , then the original yoghurt was not live . |
| 3 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 4 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 6 | He damaged a shoulder in a club match on Saturday week , and the injury has not responded to treatment . |
| 7 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 8 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 9 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 10 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 11 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 12 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 13 | He had not retired to bed sober , but then he rarely , if ever , did . |
| 14 | She simply told me how relieved she was that her husband had not put to sea that day . |
| 15 | The rapid returners , where three-quarters struck at the outset , but by mid-November only 10 per cent had not returned to work . |
| 16 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 17 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 18 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 19 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 20 | Those are all positive steps which , it is true , have not led to peace as yet . |
| 21 | I phoned your office on 6 April and left a message asking you or your colleagues to let me know the position but I have not heard to date . |
| 22 | So far they have not hardened to ice . |
| 23 | So maybe that 's why it 's not come to light before . |
| 24 | It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped . |