Example sentences of "not [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see , ’ said Fakrid , not seeing at all . |
| 2 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 3 | He said that " the essence of the duty seems more likely to be that of not using without paying rather than of not using at all " . |
| 4 | If you are an Imperial player and facing a foe that uses such despicable tactics then console yourself with the thought that at least the units firing at the Helblaster are not firing at other targets . |
| 5 | Mr Vass said his client had lashed out , in a fight outside a pub , not realising at the time that a bottle in his hand was broken . |
| 6 | He was fond of his wife in an absent-minded way , especially when she was not nagging at him , so he took a Kleenex out of the kitchen box and went back to her , saying rather hopelessly : ‘ Here , have a Kleenex . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One does the work , the others get under my feet , ’ he replied sardonically , not helping at all and ignoring her cool formality . |
| 8 | I 'm not singing at all . |
| 9 | Try drinking lots of water instead : not eating at all for a day to clear out the system ( unless you are a diabetic or have some other dietary problem ) ; having a warm bath and a nap ; going for a long walk . |
| 10 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 11 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |
| 12 | And , because there is a food shortage , the affected people have the choice of eating contaminated food or not eating at all . |
| 13 | Capital equipment ( except in expanding lines like cement ) and , to a large extent , labour employed , remain constant whether or not producing at full capacity . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not hinting at anything . |
| 15 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not laughing at what you say . |
| 17 | And he will rend the plans in twain , what with it being such a nice pub and all , and the lads not laughing at his poncey suit . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not laughing at you , Schatzie . |
| 19 | It 's alright she ca n't keep quiet Ron , we 're not laughing at you . |
| 20 | No we 're laugh , not laughing at her being deaf , we 're laughing at her , the robbery . |
| 21 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes thank you , Papa , ’ Artemis replied , not understanding at all what her father meant . |
| 23 | She frowned , not understanding at first , then felt a faint flush steal into her cheeks as his meaning became clear . |
| 24 | For the latter , the additional time spent on reading words occurring at clause boundaries ( in comparison with words not occurring at boundaries ) was 73 milliseconds . |
| 25 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |
| 26 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 27 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 28 | In these circumstances soil erosion is potentially of utmost importance to the livelihood of these vulnerable people , even if it is not happening at present . |
| 29 | Well now , tell me why you 're not living at home . |
| 30 | She might well have owned that it was the other way round and that Rosemary 's husband had been the one to do the leaving , Leith realised , when her mother retorted , ‘ Well , she 's not living at her flat , is she ? |