Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 2 | She had been undaunted even when Henry said he 'd wager that she dare not stay alone in the Lodge while he and Lettice explored the woods outside . |
| 3 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 4 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 5 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 6 | This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks . |
| 7 | I agree with Eric Hobsbawm 's assertion that nationhood need not arise exclusively from the past ( ‘ Whose fault-line is it anyway ? ’ , 24 April ) . |
| 8 | But I think that question does not arise here from the facts . |
| 9 | She asked the Government to ensure that similar situations did not arise again in the future . |
| 10 | It reflects some current concerns , and also questions which do not arise specifically at the moment , but which we ought to realise may arise in the future . |
| 11 | A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message . |
| 12 | This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it . |
| 13 | In the civil service it may not exist lower down the organisation . |
| 14 | However should the United States be able to demonstrate the necessary state practice and opinio juris to substantiate a claim of customary international law , there is no reason why such general principles of law should not exist independently of the Convention . |
| 15 | What I have tried to say — namely that writing is not governed by the subjective intentions of its author , that ideas do not exist independently of the language which ‘ expresses ’ them — has ( inevitably ) been partially contradicted by the manner in which it has been said . |
| 16 | Theory Y , however , depends on mature individuals ; maturity , given the influence of group psychology etc , does not exist sufficiently on the shop floor to be practicable in its extreme form . |
| 17 | One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country . |
| 18 | The map showed the kind of town which did not exist anywhere in the empire . |
| 19 | Let us be clear that we should not think merely of the Europe of the Twelve . |
| 20 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 21 | None the less , Henry did not rush headlong down the road to schism . |
| 22 | Statistics like these do not compare well with the animal world where the male rattlesnake apparently lasts twenty-four hours before letting himself go . |
| 23 | They might not compare favourably with the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the wheel but , at least for me , they have made the year more palatable : |
| 24 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 25 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 26 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
| 27 | Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police . |
| 28 | Well you probably lose a bit , it 's not sticking properly to the wall . |
| 29 | What the Leeds manager appeared to be saying was that , while it was a matter of opinion whether Mr Midgley used his discretion correctly , he was glad to see a referee not sticking rigidly to the letter of the law . |
| 30 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |