Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 2 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 3 | Administration officials also cast doubt on the environmental statements of other Northern governments , claiming that the French , German and Japanese , among others , were not matching their rhetoric with action . |
| 4 | Abraham talked on , not noticing her lack of attention . |
| 5 | The Stoddard players would like to thank their Captain for not upstaging their team on behalf of Lyles . |
| 6 | The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench . |
| 7 | Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool . |
| 8 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 9 | Because today Christopher 's not having his lunch at school . |
| 10 | The next hold-up was outside Boundary Hall where a stream of cars was emerging from his left and not acknowledging his right of way . |
| 11 | We shouted but what with the noise of the water and not knowing their language of course it was n't any use and then we were in the water . |
| 12 | The US Secretary of State set up SEATO — the South East Asia Treaty Organisation — as a forum for discussion in South East Asia , in order to show it was not wielding its power without consultation , to try to help sort things out . |
| 13 | But the Telegraph was not taking its line from saloon bar advisers . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not taking their point of view . |
| 15 | We now have the West Yorkshire authorities saying , Hang about , you 're loading too much onto us , by not taking your share of migration out of West Yorkshire . |
| 16 | These fallbacks are essential to ensure that you are not putting your home at risk if your money-saving plans go awry . |
| 17 | Werner never met W. E. Taylor [ q.v. ] , whose obituary she wrote ; while not rivalling his mastery of Swahili , she excelled him in her wide command of Bantu languages . |