Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison .
2 I did not send them to school again for many years .
3 Is there any reason why I should not send you to prison for a very long time ’
4 YOUNG Darren Ferguson 's ability persuaded his dad Alex not to sell him to Forest — and now he 's the bright spot in United 's poor start to the season
5 In Bateman itself the accused took part of the victim 's uterus away during childbirth and did not remove her to hospital for five days .
6 I want to spray the little devils , not kick them to death !
7 These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men .
8 He ridiculed the ceremonies in impeccable prose , and disparaged the British Minister and his family , who had not invited him to lunch .
9 He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere .
10 ‘ I shall not take him to Court .
11 ‘ Do not take it to heart ; they say all you need do is lie with a virgin .
12 She was always careful while here to cast her inquiries in the form of statements and she said , choosing her words meticulously , ‘ I expect Jasper was a bit off-colour this morning so you felt it wiser not to send him to school .
13 I 'll ask him not to send you to school .
14 Do we not owe it to community charge payers in each of those areas to ensure that the best value is obtained for their money and that they get the most efficient service ?
15 Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ?
16 You will soon be well , if I do not talk you to death .
17 So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas
18 My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success .
19 One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something .
20 I do n't want her to shit on your head .
21 Well , yeah , but I do n't want you to sort of like
22 I hope you do n't expect me to foot it .
23 I 'll be happy for you as long as you do n't expect me to father it .
24 yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it
25 They ca n't send him to college .
26 They wo n't send them to home addresses free ?
27 ‘ You 're lucky I did n't beat him to death ! ’ he bit out , the car screeching round the mountain road in hot sunlight .
28 I do n't give it to Miss !
29 Is n't loving you to distraction a good enough reason ? ’
30 Er I honestly ca n't remember what the the breakdown on the figures are but er even by moving that inner route direction er we were unable er within the traffic model to actually er encourage so much re as much relief on the A sixty one what the actual figures were I have n't got them to hand sir at the moment .
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