Example sentences of "do [not/n't] even [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 2 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 3 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 4 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 5 | A sizeable proportion of the population did not even listen to the speech . |
| 6 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 7 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 8 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 9 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 10 | The word " home " in fact raised in his mind as they spoke their tedious sentences a mental image which it did not even occur to him to describe to Mr Rose . |
| 11 | He had maintained that ‘ some of these bases do not even answer to strategic necessities in connection with the possibility of a world war , but simply serve for the imperialist domination of the peoples concerned , the subjection of nations and the combating of movements of national liberation ’ . |
| 12 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 13 | STA SODON The worst feelings which do not even lead to suicide |
| 14 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 15 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 16 | But properties do not even have to be habitable to qualify . |
| 17 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 18 | These barriers do not even conform to the existing standard , since the gap at pedal height on the upper barrier is only 392mm. , while the gap at the bottom of the lower barrier is only 395mm . |
| 19 | Haulage contracts do not even need to be in writing . |
| 20 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 21 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 22 | We do not even need to be able to measure the somewhat esoteric concept of surplus , since it is always a one-way reduction . |
| 23 | Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI . |
| 24 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 25 | He knew nothing about the world — his children did n't even go to school . |
| 26 | Did n't even go to the committee dear , this one |
| 27 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher did n't even talk to me . |
| 29 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |
| 30 | But shops showed no interest and the big soap companies did n't even reply to her letters . |