Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 2 | At a conference in Munich , Germany , on Nov. 18-20 ministers from the 13 member countries of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) decided not to move on from the research to the development phase of the key Hermes spacecraft and the Columbus space laboratory projects . |
| 3 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 4 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 5 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 6 | Then the buyer lost money because of the Gulf crisis , and the price of land was falling so he chose not to go through with the contract . |
| 7 | Orkney Islands Council did not give up without a fight . |
| 8 | Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight . |
| 9 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 10 | However , these grumbles , and the piecemeal reforms and constitutional pseudo-changes which they inspired , did not spill over into a generalised sense of unease about the essence of the liberal-democratic constitution itself . |
| 11 | Our prices did not go up at the same rate . |
| 12 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 13 | But Doherty , 22 , of Dublin , did not go down without a fight and doggedly pursued Hendry all afternoon . |
| 14 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 15 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 16 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 17 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 18 | In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear . |
| 19 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 20 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 21 | This time , Wilson did not go out in the street to wave goodbye nor did she weep . |
| 22 | The Lords of Trade asked merchants and other interests to give their opinions about policy ; a number of ministers had grants of their own for settlements in North America and clearly expected to benefit as landlords , though they did not go out like the Penns and the Baltimores to take an active role in running their properties . |
| 23 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 24 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 25 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 26 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 27 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 28 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 30 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |