Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy 's not using it at the moment , oh goodness me . |
| 2 | Once reconciliation has happened , it is important not to see it as the end of the process . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 6 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
| 7 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 8 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's promised not to drive it in the rain . ’ |
| 13 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 14 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
| 15 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 16 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 17 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone . |
| 19 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 20 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 21 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 22 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 23 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 24 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 25 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 26 | You must be careful not to overdo it on the beach however , because the nightlife in Malia is simply explosive . |
| 27 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 28 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 29 | The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ? |
| 30 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |