Example sentences of "[pron] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
| 2 | Well can you not go down in the morning when you 're a bit better ? |
| 3 | Did you not hear out in the street ? |
| 4 | Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’ |
| 5 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 6 | John had asked her not to go up to the loft . |
| 7 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 8 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 9 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |
| 10 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 11 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |