Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 2 | The men disappeared behind a distant quayside shed , but she dared not trust to luck and hid behind a winch . |
| 3 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 4 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 5 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 6 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 7 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 8 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 9 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 10 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 11 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 12 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
| 13 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 14 | There were concerts in the town , of course , but poor people did not go to concerts . |
| 15 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 16 | She did not go to bed . |
| 17 | I am sorry that he is disappointed that the order did not go to Swan 's , but I can assure him that there was fair play and it has gone to Yarrow . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 19 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 20 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
| 21 | The girls admitted they did not go to discos , but said they had friends . |
| 22 | Houghton did not go to Oxford until the season after , when they they were in Div1 . |
| 23 | Both the housing department and housing associations had helped with accommodation , and the social work team had started luncheon clubs and drop in centres for people with learning disabilities who did not go to day centres . |
| 24 | But all did not go to plan . |
| 25 | The Masses were held at Christmas , and at Scone instead of the newly finished cathedral at Birsay , for the King did not go to Orkney that winter . |
| 26 | I M P A C which was formed to protect the pensioners had threatened an injunction if they did not go to Court . |
| 27 | No , I did not go to Whitefriars . |
| 28 | He did not go to Carolina . |
| 29 | For example , we did not go to Australia in July . |
| 30 | So the dockers did not go to prison and the strikes were avoided . |