Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh let's not all talk at the same time ! |
| 2 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 3 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 4 | This section of the policy does not apply if the Policyholder 's wife/husband does not normally live at the same address as the Policyholder e.g. if Policyholder and wife are separated . |
| 5 | Furthermore , and perhaps more importantly from the point of view of answering the sceptics , even though we can not directly get at the hidden real natures of things , perhaps our knowledge of appearances will enable us to do so indirectly . |
| 6 | Even in this type of community , however , men did not always stay at the same job all their lives . |
| 7 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 8 | And er the sun does n't always travel at the same speed it goes fast and slow so we can also measure the the sun . |
| 9 | Today she did n't even glance at the cloudless blue sky . |
| 10 | The boy did n't even glance at the folded franc notes . |