Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospective players need n't rush out to the gym though . |
| 2 | You ca n't hang on to the past . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 5 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 6 | Try to hold these contradictory memories together : do n't give in to the temptation to simplify your experience by discarding one important aspect of it . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 8 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 9 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're pathetic and obsessed and you wo n't face up to the truth that Eddie was never good enough to make the jump into Formula One ! |
| 11 | She does n't hold on to the sheet . |
| 12 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |
| 13 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 14 | But this would n't match up to the greatness of the Porfiry-Raskolnikov scenes . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | The end result did n't match up to the pre-race hype . |
| 17 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 18 | you get you get , keep your own because if there 's any time she ca n't walk down to the bottom we 've always |
| 19 | He did n't go over to the Republic or see friends . |
| 20 | As a presage , she did n't go up to the top alone . |
| 21 | You do n't go on to the next bit till you 've worked that one out . |
| 22 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 23 | Do n't go off to the sun and leave it parked in the street . |
| 24 | Finishing the book and having to go back to take photographs specially for it left me a bit jaded , so I did n't go out to the Alps this year . |
| 25 | Well it 's fairly obvious that you ca n't go back to the plant , in n it ? ’ agreed his platinum blonde flatmate Deirdre . |
| 26 | So one night I did n't go back to the Barracks for supper . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't go back to the horses again ? ’ |
| 28 | I did n't go back to the dining car but forward into the lounge , where again the sight of my yellow waistcoat stirred a few thirsts , which I did my best to accommodate . |
| 29 | ‘ I notice that you do n't go back to the village in the afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | No , do n't go back to the house , Jane , on such a lovely night . |