Example sentences of "not [verb] i to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares . |
| 2 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 3 | Looking forward to the circus , but could I ask you not to throw me to the lions until I 've got my accounts in order ? |
| 4 | ‘ Even if he does n't send me to the Glasshouse , I 'm done for . |
| 5 | I do n't want to let the side down — do n't send me to the Sick Room ! |
| 6 | Do n't take me to the tower . |
| 7 | One has to be , but it does n't blind me to the fact that we are both solemn underneath the surface . |
| 8 | I want you and I believe you owe me , but wanting you has n't unbalanced me to the extent you seem to believe . |
| 9 | You did n't ask me to the wedding . ’ |