Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might not make 'em on a Sunday |
| 2 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 4 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 5 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 6 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 7 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 8 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 9 | If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens . |
| 10 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 11 | If Sartre 's endeavour to ground the Marxist science of history suggests that the Hegelian totality and continuum can only work by a continual labour of excluding the partial and discontinuous , Althusser 's effort to constitute a differentiated history shows that you can not do it without a teleology . |
| 12 | Do they not do it on a Thursday ? |
| 13 | It is because of this fact , that ‘ DEAC ’ the manufacturer states that if a battery is being discharged at the 110 rate you should not discharge it to a voltage of less than 1.1 volts per cell . |
| 14 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 15 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 16 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 17 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 18 | She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done . |
| 19 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He does not see her as a woman , ’ Sydel said . |
| 21 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not see him as a killer . |
| 23 | M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope . |
| 24 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 25 | Why they did not use them in a manner that would almost certainly have sealed the fate of the French at Verdun seems to us almost incredible , and so indeed it seemed to contemporary German critics . |
| 26 | We need to offer disruptive children an education that does not limit them in a straitjacket designed to serve the political and economic needs of a society characterised by a culture of individualism . |
| 27 | They did not discover him till a fortnight later . |
| 28 | It has already been seen that , if the defendant knows that his assailant was a policeman , it will not avail him as a defence if he mistakenly thinks that the policeman was exceeding his powers . |
| 29 | " Then mark this , Master Harry : if you wo n't take Sam here on at fishing , you 'll not have me as a wife . |
| 30 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |