Example sentences of "[v-ing] [not/n't] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 2 | People do not like to see land set aside , with someone appearing not to be doing very much with the land set aside and getting paid for it . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , many hoteliers are still puzzling over the more confusing clauses , vowing not to be the first to test them through the courts . |
| 4 | Doorways and walls and even the chapel belfry are adorned with dates and inscriptions relating not to national events and national heroes but to local ‘ statesmen ’ of past generations . |
| 5 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 6 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in late July 1991 maintained that fears voiced at a Council of Europe conference on east-west migration in January 1991 of a massive influx of immigrants from eastern Europe [ see p. 37969 ] were proving not to be well-founded . |
| 7 | This is proving not to be the case , as feelings run increasingly high over what is evolving into a conflict of classes — between pro-hunting locals and what they feel is a wealthy Parisian clique . |
| 8 | Although most of the poets embrace feminism , the majority reflect the idea of a uniform female existence : preferring not to be categorised by a ‘ feminist ’ or ‘ woman poet ’ label but letting their work speak for itself . |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 10 | A lot of them were pretending not to , but somehow she was the centre of an invisible circle . |
| 11 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you nursie … you old cow , ’ he 'd say , desperately pretending not to be naked in the bath . |
| 13 | Peter pushed a prawn around his plate with a fork , pretending not to notice , but he was hurt by her obvious boredom . |
| 14 | I lay there , half crying and pretending not to be hurt , as Charlie continued to pace , flinging flowered clothes into the street below and discussing the possibility of a police force being set up to arrest and imprison rock guitarists who bent their knees while they played . |
| 15 | I 've felt it while pretending not to . |
| 16 | She saw a young man afraid and pretending not to be . |
| 17 | His colleagues were watching , pretending not to . |
| 18 | Perhaps he felt there was no point in pretending not to be upset . |
| 19 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 20 | In requesting , A must ( a ) want B to come now , ( b ) think it possible that B can come , ( c ) think B is not already there , ( d ) think B was not about to come anyway , ( e ) expect that B will respond with an acceptance or rejection , and if B accepts , then A will also expect B to come , ( f ) think that his ( A 's ) asking may be a possible motive for B to come , ( g ) not be , or be pretending not to be , in a position to order B to come 4 . |
| 21 | Henceforth I shall take life as it comes , looking not to the future … |
| 22 | Carbery looked at him warily , his eyes pleading not to be involved in such dangerous speculation , and shook his head slowly without speaking . |
| 23 | ( But maybe those are the Bernsteins now , in that car there , crossing over the top of the Parkway on the Uptown Expressway , going not to the Chases ' at all , but to the Kessels ' … ) |
| 24 | Omi sat quietly crocheting , Erika conscientiously worked on her sightseeing list for the next morning , writing out appropriate comments from the official guide to the city , Herr Nordern , guilt-free , smoked and drank brandy and Frau Nordern sat by him , having a drink , too , wondering whether she might have a cigarette — but deciding not to , preferring to keep that secret to herself . |
| 25 | If your Dream is to own your own business , then picture yourself playing with a toy sweetshop at the age of seven , or deciding not to be wage-slaves like your parents , or managing the household budget as an adult . ) |
| 26 | Think of feeling a sensation in one 's knee-or noticing a cup , having the usual inattentive visual experience of a room , feeling good or depressed about nothing specific , being struck by the fact of a recent death , wanting to go to bed , deciding not to , momentarily intending to watch the news on television , picturing a face , thinking a question or a sentence , writing one , having a dream . |
| 27 | Lopsided , belonging not to herself and her inner love , but to doctors and chemotherapy and the loss of all her hair . |
| 28 | This year Germany expects to receive applications amounting not to 50,000 , which is the rate approached by the United Kingdom , but 250,000 non-German speaking refugees . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm beginning not to be surprised . ’ |
| 30 | Are they going to spend it suddenly in er two years time , or are they expecting not to be around in two years time ? |