Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’ |
| 2 | Not seeing it right at the minute . |
| 3 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll not catch me anywhere near the fighting , ma'am . |
| 5 | This is so even if she did not buy it direct from the manufacturer ( or , indeed , even if she did not buy it . ) |
| 6 | This , of course , will not bring us anywhere near the origin of the change . |
| 7 | Just be sure that your opponent does not trap him there with the Orb of Thunder , so keep that Dispel scroll handy . |
| 8 | You would not see them here in the forest . |
| 9 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 10 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ When it 's time to sleep , why not set her here on the chair to watch over you ? ’ |
| 12 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 13 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
| 14 | Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ . |
| 15 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 16 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 17 | Do not leave it entirely to the advertising agency or the personnel department . |
| 18 | If the handler tries simply to grasp the scruff or does not hold it tight behind the ears he is liable to be bitten . |
| 19 | She knew that the police do not have white cards , but did not press them further on the issue . |
| 20 | Do not spread it right to the edge or it will ooze out . |
| 21 | I 'm not taking you home in a stroppy mood Aaron we left home in a a stroppy mood |
| 22 | So why not link them together in a grand Tichka Plateau to Jbel Toubkal trek ? the tantalisingly unknown descent of the Nfis went on our programme ‘ for immediate attention ’ and uniquely , we involved both Mohammed and Aziz in a co-operative venture . |
| 23 | She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you . |
| 24 | We have a responsibility now … to see that we do not get it wrong in the other direction . |
| 25 | They would not get us far in the heights of the Greshorns anyway , ’ said Bicker . |
| 26 | No you 're not putting them anywhere at the moment . |
| 27 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 28 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 29 | You 've got ta eat it , not throw it all over the table ! |
| 30 | This is not telling me much about the far side of the hill , he thought . |