Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 5 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 10 | However , the wound did not continue through to the chest wall at the back . ’ |
| 11 | For all its sincerity , the play did not live up to the promise of its finely drawn characters and the Manchester Guardian called it ‘ a mildly glum artistic failure ’ . |
| 12 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 13 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 14 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 15 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 16 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 17 | She did not hurry back to the house . |
| 18 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 19 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 20 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 21 | Do not go back to the old gods . ’ |
| 22 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 23 | Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity . |
| 24 | ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food . |
| 25 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 26 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 27 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 28 | It is useful to have trays with a non-skid surface and a raised rim , so that small objects do not slip on to the floor or out of reach . |
| 29 | Put simply , the meanings of black and bird do not add up to the meaning of blackbird , but do yield that of black bird . |
| 30 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |