Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 2 | When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews . |
| 3 | This was the earliest technology in which power was derived from sources other than animal muscles and the output was so obviously superior that men did not mind putting up with the inconvenience of machines which were uncomfortable or awkward to use . |
| 4 | A and we tended to not bother going back to the client , but giving what we thought he needed , that was the culture of the regional civil engineer , |
| 5 | As he moved past the man 's shoulder on his way back , Harry could not help glancing down at the book . |
| 6 | She does n't fancy turning up to the supermarket in it ! |
| 7 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 8 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't mind moving out of the limelight . |
| 10 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't like going out into the yard when she was there . ’ |
| 12 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 13 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 14 | But it certainly has n't determined policy in any way , because what we 've said is that provided we 're satisfied that there is n't profiteering going on by the oil companies , and our Office of Fair Trading have told us that there is n't , then it is right that , that we should pay the right price for our petrol , and that is what it costs at any one time . |
| 15 | I did n't bother going through to the consulting room but hastened from behind the desk and crouched on the floor , studying the dog intently . |
| 16 | We we would n't mean sticking out of the wood and saying no . |
| 17 | You know he would n't go wandering about in the warren . |
| 18 | I wo n't go banging on about the open fireplace again , but to my mind that was certainly one of them . |
| 19 | I do n't advise coming down to the mortuary , Pat . |
| 20 | Professor Wendell must be a very methodical man ; he certainly would n't relish coming back to the chaos a fallen ceiling would create . |