Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not heard of anything like this before , certainly not up here . |
| 2 | In contrast , preoccupation with sickness is not recommended for anyone except those in the medical profession . |
| 3 | I mean I 'm not looking at anyone in particular , because I I ca n't |
| 4 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 5 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 6 | Most of them were carrying bows , but even those who had arrows nocked were not aiming at anything in particular . |
| 7 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 8 | They 're not asking for anything in specific . |
| 9 | Now what , what was left was a guideline for economic development other , of sixty five thousand , which happens to be equivalent to pollution prevention schemes at one , but was certainly not earmarked to anything in particular , it was just a guideline that they were thinking of , and I , I think it would be a help to Policy Panel and Policy and Resources Committee , to obtain a response to that non-identified sixty five thousand pound item . |
| 10 | Kate would not stand for anything like that , she was too straight . |
| 11 | Bryden tentatively argued that the latter correlation indicated that in terms of dichotic listening asymmetry one is not dealing with something under genetic control " . |
| 12 | I 'm not talking to anyone at all and I certainly do n't want to talk to you ever again . ’ |
| 13 | Well , in theory up to an extent you are the answer which means that we have to buy less things , eat less , and , because we are you know that , I mean , I mean n I do n't want to , I mean I 'm not talking to anyone in particular , but we have a lot of very very big people and . |
| 14 | ‘ Must you ? ’ she said , still half asleep and not thinking of anything at all except David . |
| 15 | I was not thinking of anything in particular . |
| 16 | As Mr Howe said : ‘ People say you make your own luck but you can not legislate for something like that . ’ |
| 17 | But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms . |
| 18 | You have n't heard of anything like that at all have you ? |
| 19 | It was Grand National time and he could n't think of anything but Top Spin Lob . ’ |
| 20 | I could n't think of anything like that . |
| 21 | It 's a pity he could n't stick to something like that cos I mean ex-policemen can get jobs like that no trouble ca n't they ? |
| 22 | The guards had always said that they were n't bothered about anyone in British gaols , so we 'd hoped it would be easier for us to get out than for the others . |
| 23 | I did n't , until that actually happened you know , I did n't believe in anything like that . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I do n't ; you know I do n't believe in anything like that . ’ |
| 25 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 26 | Oh I would n't go for anything like that , he knows that as well |
| 27 | I do n't go by anything at all ( 27 ) . |
| 28 | He simply did n't care for anyone at all . |
| 29 | Do n't worry about anything like that . ’ |
| 30 | And it 's a very distinctive shape , which does n't conform with anything in this room . |