Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't properly spoken to me since our refusal to carry drugs . |
| 2 | You are n't perhaps related to our previous correspondent , are you ? |
| 3 | However , legal protection cover is n't necessarily limited to motoring claims . |
| 4 | Making parents aware of the virtues of the school , the buildings , the playing fields , the swimming pool etc is n't necessarily related to providing quality education . |
| 5 | Her duties were n't merely confined to waitressing however ; like all the girls at The Haven she did whatever was required of her from changing bed linen to washing dishes . |
| 6 | Escapism is n't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel . |
| 7 | But then lions were n't generally subjected to the kinds of pressures she was under , Rory thought wryly , knowing she could never say the words aloud . |
| 8 | Mrs Hobbs was n't exactly accustomed to luxury , but the shoe had never pinched . |
| 9 | I think in the past the , the response from the County Council would be that it was n't directly related to industrial relations . |
| 10 | And of course because mathematics is n't directly attached to anything else , any other subject area , it can follow the whims of individual researchers , so at that level things come and go . |
| 11 | I feel like the woods are revolving around me ; maybe if I was n't still handcuffed to the sergeant , I 'd fall over . |
| 12 | She was n't usually given to fanciful musings , but in her tiredness the surroundings , already blurring in the faint wisps of mist from the drop in temperature , looked like a perfect setting for Macbeth 's meeting with the witches . |
| 13 | He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself . |
| 14 | For all the week that Timothy Gedge had been tormenting them it had n't once occurred to her , which surprised her as she prayed now . |
| 15 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 16 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 17 | I know he has n't really gone to the shops . |
| 18 | You know , there was a lot of people had them and gave them out to neighbours or not total strangers , but people that were n't really related to them . |
| 19 | She had n't really expected to , she realised . |
| 20 | He had n't really expected to actually see Mrs Constantine ; she was gaining a rather eccentric reputation . |
| 21 | And then if she says something like well what do you think I might just say well I have n't really talked to you very much about the way that you feel about Dangerous so I do n't really know erm Dangerous , what a fucking stupid name ! |
| 22 | I still have n't really settled to it because my nerves have gone all wonky being in the house . |
| 23 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 24 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 25 | Um so er but nevertheless those sort of things are n't often considered to be child sex abuse . |
| 26 | In a similar vein , the level of interest in machine-readable copies of the FT or of any number of government records is n't solely restricted to the historical community . |
| 27 | The Design Controller does n't have a program written especially for changing the pattern but I 've spend some time wondering if any of the programs could be used for this purpose , even if they were n't originally intended to be ; however , I 've had no success . |
| 28 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 29 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 30 | On top of that CICS , is n't even limited to IBM machines any more : last October an agreement was signed that will see it running on Hewlett-Packard Co 's machines ( CI No 2,019 ) . |