Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 2 | He dues not want it more earnestly than I do . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 4 | These can lead to catastrophic failures if inspectors do not identify them either visually or by applying non-destructive testing techniques such as X-rays , eddy currents , and ultrasonic inspection . |
| 5 | Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended . |
| 6 | ‘ In that case I will not keep you any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
| 8 | But even the best brakes in the world will not stop you as quickly as hitting something … |
| 9 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 10 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 11 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 12 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
| 13 | ‘ YOU can be a member and not commit yourself any further if you prefer ’ |
| 14 | Do not apply it too tightly and check the balls of your toes to see whether they turn blue and become cold to the touch . |
| 15 | It was a comforting diversion ; he told himself not to question it too deeply and accept it for now . |
| 16 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 17 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 18 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 19 | I could not write anything here yesterday because I was too desolate at the thought that I could hot come and talk to you . |
| 20 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |
| 21 | He says a child with meningitis could need urgent treatment and may not get it fast enough because its too far . |
| 22 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 23 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 24 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |
| 25 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 26 | The widget-making company may increase the amount it pays the remaining workers ; it may reduce the price of widgets ( or not increase it as fast as prices in general rise ) ; and it may be able to retain some of the saving as increased profits . |
| 27 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 28 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 29 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 30 | I want you to tell him I ca n't assist him any further and there 's no point him contacting me again . |