Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I trust Cully Chatterton has not appropriated it in order to check out casino share prices . ’ |
| 2 | Ken has encouraged me to circulate this , although he has not seen it in detail . |
| 3 | Even if it is assumed that actual bodily harm has been inflicted in these circumstances , the defendant has inflicted it during intercourse but has not inflicted it in order to have or continue having sexual intercourse . |
| 4 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 5 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 6 | COHSE says experience in three West Dorset trusts , the South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust and the East Gloucestershire NHS Trust has not convinced it of PRP 's worth . |
| 7 | Liverpool University has not approached us regarding flood defence assessment . ’ |
| 8 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 9 | the bumper bundle of review samples they were sending has n't reached us in time for this issue , though , so look out next month for further toe-tappin' details ! |
| 10 | ‘ She has n't got you in thrall . |
| 11 | Well as it 's used in other muckier places I tend not to use it over cleaning table white cloths aah |
| 12 | There chips just a tiny bit well you see you do n't do it with style the way me and Emma do take you to Palma sit on a bench eating them ! |
| 13 | All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all . |
| 14 | My index finger was sleeved in frost and I dared not bend it for fear of splitting the skin . |
| 15 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 16 | Wherever she went , there would always be the knowledge deep within her that she loved Rourke , and that he did not love her in return . |
| 17 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 18 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 19 | A fourth option I did not mention it in Committee is to sell the property separately but arrange for it to be leased to the bus operating company . |
| 20 | Her ill health did not prevent her from painting , from being politically active in the communist movement nor from leading a rich life . |
| 21 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 22 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 23 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 24 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 25 | Although the Chicago School made passing reference to Freud 's work in discussing the biotic level , it did not explore it in detail , perhaps because it was not fully available in English during the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 26 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 27 | At least in the youth game the referee has a very clear directive as to who should be awarded the put-in ; the side who did not take it into ruck or maul . |
| 28 | The book goes on to quote Stephen Jay Gould , the noted Harvard palaeontologist , as saying : We avoid the excellent question , What good is 5 percent of an eye ? by arguing that the possessor of such an incipient structure did not use it for sight . |
| 29 | He did not recognise it as hope . |
| 30 | For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line . |