Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 3 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 4 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 5 | Amy 's not using it at the moment , oh goodness me . |
| 6 | Once reconciliation has happened , it is important not to see it as the end of the process . |
| 7 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 8 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 9 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 10 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 11 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 12 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 13 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
| 14 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 15 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 16 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 17 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 18 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
| 19 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 20 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 21 | Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team . |
| 22 | It seems better not to include it as a criterion of value , once it is clearly distinguished from probability . |
| 23 | If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further . |
| 24 | But Mr Oteng added : ‘ It is up to the media to try to dispel racist stereotypes , not push them to the forefront . |
| 25 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 26 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 28 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 29 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 30 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |