Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances . |
| 2 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 3 | His widow , Anna-Maria St Albyn , did not choose to live in so isolated a place , and her great nephew , heir to the estate , was still a child . |
| 4 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 5 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 6 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 7 | Auden was rightly suspicious of his own rhetoric ; but to say that the line We must love one another or die is untrue because we die anyway ( or because those who do not love do not instantly expire ) is to take a narrow or forgetful view . |
| 8 | They were the Test Match addicts , very small babies , icecream van drivers or , as in our house , parents with toddlers who WO N'T stay put long enough to let them catch breath , let alone get a tan ! |
| 9 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 10 | I did n't want to wind up permanently parked on the Pipeline reef . |
| 11 | She could n't wait to wake up tomorrow to see what disaster that day would bring ! |
| 12 | There did not seem much point in working at my research , because I did n't expect to live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 13 | I do n't like do n't really work though do you ? |
| 14 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 15 | You know , I mean even at these diet clubs , oh well , you know do n't stop going out just eat what you , but if you go out and you 're eating sweets for you know , after your dinner |
| 16 | Buy it and it 'll ruin your life — the dog will crap on your carpet 'cos you forgot to take it walkies , you 'll lose three stone in weight 'cos you ca n't stop playing long enough to eat ( load it in — Fatty Phil ) , and your next electricity bill will be bigger than Gazza 's pay packet . |
| 17 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 18 | They wo n't have to travel so far to work . |
| 19 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 20 | So he kept saying , oh do n't bother going out tonight go after next Saturday for an hour like . |
| 21 | I ca n't afford to hang around here waiting until you deign to come back to collect me . |
| 22 | It seems that a lot of the new guitar players in bands do n't seem to go back anymore to check who their idols were influenced by — like , they 'll go as far back as Jimmy Page then stop , without finding out about his influences … |
| 23 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |
| 24 | Have you checked with erm , oh I can check if you want , with er , you see the problem is they do n't visit do n't really know what 's going on , it 's basically |