Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know you 're not to go wandering off like that ! |
| 2 | ‘ We can not keep muddling along like this forever . |
| 3 | Although he did not begin painting seriously until 1911 , Gris had thus been in a position to watch at first hand the birth and development of Picasso 's Cubism . |
| 4 | This does not mean opting out of positive training or the setting of limits . |
| 5 | Although Doodlebug breaks no new ground and may not prove challenging enough for hardened players , it 's still a neat little platformer . |
| 6 | As far as identity is concerned , this does not involve looking primarily for some smug sense of having arrived at a particular social position . |
| 7 | She could not imagine remaining indefinitely at Four Winds . |
| 8 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 9 | ‘ I hope he was n't delayed rameishing on with some customer today of all days , ’ Benny heard her mother say to Patsy . |
| 10 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 11 | I suppose I 'll have to put his in the microwave , I ca n't keep messing about like this . |
| 12 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 13 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 14 | A cliché in Beowulf 's time , I know , but you ca n't keep coming up with new games . |
| 15 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 16 | Yuppies wo n't like living across from all that noise . |
| 17 | She said , I do n't like getting up before half eleven , twelve o'clock ! |
| 18 | I do n't like sitting here for two hours . |
| 19 | Elaine : ‘ Our small baby did n't like lying back like this . ’ |
| 20 | I could n't face going back to that flat in West Kensington not knowing what to do with my life and having to be pleasant , and not being respected by anyone . |
| 21 | Do n't try messing around with ordinary control units , by the way , as they may not be able to cope with the different wattages . |
| 22 | I do n't mind you trying to get out , but you do n't go messing around like that . |
| 23 | I just ca n't bear mucking around with dirty greasy things . |
| 24 | Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) . |