Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 2 | Here in Learning through Drama we have a group of three people whose years of teaching combined did not add up to more than twenty . |
| 3 | Providing the length of your fish ( excluding tail ) do not add up to more than 36 inches , your aquarium is not overcrowded . |
| 4 | I could not get away at once because of all the clearing up there was to do , but at last the files on that unhappy case could be put away , and I was planning a fortnight 's cruise in my ancient Yorkshire coble Joanna , now moored on the Crouch . |
| 5 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't hang around in here if it 's coming that soon ! ’ said Masklin , all thoughts of his duty to the nomes of the world temporarily forgotten . |
| 7 | ‘ She says she wo n't move back in here until we redecorate the whole office from top to bottom and hold a bloody seance . ’ |
| 8 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 9 | but we ca n't get off of there unless we |