Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
2 | " 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 … . ’ |
8 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
11 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
12 | There were concerts in the town , of course , but poor people did not go to concerts . |
13 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
14 | She did not go to bed . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
17 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
18 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
19 | The girls admitted they did not go to discos , but said they had friends . |
20 | Houghton did not go to Oxford until the season after , when they they were in Div1 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But all did not go to plan . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I M P A C which was formed to protect the pensioners had threatened an injunction if they did not go to Court . |
25 | No , I did not go to Whitefriars . |
26 | He did not go to Carolina . |
27 | For example , we did not go to Australia in July . |
28 | So the dockers did not go to prison and the strikes were avoided . |
29 | A similar result was reached by Lord Somervell who was of the opinion that fraud did not go to jurisdiction and could be challenged at any time . |
30 | She hoped that she did not appear to others like a worthy cause . |