Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone tells you not to think of a white bear , what happens ? |
| 2 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 3 | She forced herself not to think of the old bathroom and , by extension , of her mother . |
| 4 | She shivered in her lavendered sheets , imploring herself to rest , trying not to think of the dreadful thing Finn had said . |
| 5 | Now , they smiled , standing with fingers entwined , bodies touching , and even when he left her the smile would remain and she would save her tears until his train was out of sight , trying not to think of the brave goodbye that might be their last . |
| 6 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 7 | In the face of the fight against Microsoft Corp ( not to speak of the old Unix Wars ) we leave you this week with the observation that this is more true of the Unix industry than not . |
| 8 | No doubt you enjoy the effect of the exposed sock , the way the bum-freezer jacket now shows the waistband of the trousers — not to speak of the exciting way the buttons strain across my chest . ’ |