Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 2 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 3 | The court in the Reference did not lay down a closed list : the public interest was the governing consideration . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 5 | For Christine , a nursery school teacher living near Manchester , now that most the ‘ teething troubles ’ with Anna are over , there is only one sadness : that she did not bring back a second child . |
| 6 | So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message . |
| 7 | Hence the acceptance of professionalism did not set up a free market in football but bound players legally to one club and determined the maximum wage that could be paid to them . |
| 8 | Although police in subsequent statements inclined towards a simple robbery motive ( the killer stole Fr Men 's briefcase ) , they did not rule out a political motive . |
| 9 | He said the battle over the motorway extension was important for the whole of Europe , and he did not rule out a further legal challenge . |
| 10 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 11 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 12 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 13 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 14 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 15 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 16 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 17 | I do not rule out a Labour government , pinned down by a narrow majority , seeking to enact at least some of its social legislation through a supportive EC . |
| 18 | The notes do not set out the full legal requirements . |
| 19 | But whatever you do , do not send out a general mailing and then ring up and ask whether the recipient is going to use it or not . |
| 20 | Do not pick up a small fish in your finger and thumb , as you can squeeze it and cause it injury . |
| 21 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |
| 22 | ‘ Then nothing to suggest that — granted he walked in of his own will — he did n't walk out the same way ? ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps the producer hurried the film prematurely into production , or the director did n't carry out the necessary preparation . |
| 24 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 25 | You did n't get over a broken romance that quickly . |
| 26 | ‘ Cinderella 's coach did n't turn up the second time around ? ’ |
| 27 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 28 | Erm I did n't write down the other things that you mentioned as we were going through that were n't on this list . |
| 29 | She did n't take out the folded sheet . |
| 30 | It certainly did n't sound like your friend Simon and he certainly did n't put on a silly voice like that silly twit did |