Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 2 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 3 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 4 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 5 | After meeting the surgeons , he said they had agreed they could cope if medical emergencies did not spill over to their beds . |
| 6 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 7 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 8 | She did not go straight to her bed . |
| 9 | He did not go straight to his destination . |
| 10 | Alistair did not go up to Leeds for the weekend . |
| 11 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 12 | Dermot joined me at Magdalen for my fourth year at Oxford ; Roddy did not go up to Oxford until the year after I had left . |
| 13 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 14 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 15 | They did not go back to ‘ living together ’ even in the purely conceptual sense of many academic couples they knew , separated by their jobs . |
| 16 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 17 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 18 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 19 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 20 | In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear . |
| 21 | Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese . |
| 22 | Sources note that Adobe Systems Inc did not go along to Apple Computer Inc 's MAS shindig as many hoped . |
| 23 | It is surprising that markets did not react sooner to this . |
| 24 | The paintwork , a dark brown , was peeling and the walls , unusually , had been hurriedly and superficially covered with an ugly beige paper which did not cling properly to the plaster . |
| 25 | He was usually available for comment and did not talk down to journalists . |
| 26 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 27 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 28 | In contrast , GP+envAm12-BabePuro cells infected with Psi2-DCNeo virus gave no signal when analysed by PCR for the env fusion gene and expressed virus which did not bind specifically to NIP.BSA . |
| 29 | And any relation between members of the same sex which allowed their difference , did not assimilate both to one fantasy , would be heterosexual . ’ |
| 30 | But she did not reply directly to Labour 's allegations that the Government had provided aid to others who were supporting the Pol Pot forces . |