Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun] in [noun] " 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 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 4 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 5 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 6 | The young in West Belfast know their rights in relation to the RUC and British army , but they do not know their rights in relation to jobs . |
| 7 | Bourke did not enjoy his time in Russia and on 23 October 1968 returned to his native Ireland . |
| 8 | ‘ Does it not tie your stomach in knots to look at it ? ’ |
| 9 | This has not prevented their use in Europe and North America , where in any case the risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups , such as medical personnel ; but it rules out widespread use where a vaccine is most needed , in the Third World . |
| 10 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 11 | A newspaper report of an inquest on a patient at the Biggleswade institution appeared to imply that the guardians had not done their duty in respect of the provision of adequate nursing staff . |
| 12 | She will leave , take the children with her and is often in no hurry to take on another man who can not give her caring in return . |
| 13 | Until we do know , we can not give them expression in tears or anger . |
| 14 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 15 | The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ . |
| 16 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 17 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 18 | ‘ By God , he goes a degree beyond even what I had thought , ’ said Iago , roused and vindicated , ‘ to warn you not to put your trust in princes and councillors . |
| 19 | Sparta did not abandon her aims in Thessaly ; in 426 the Spartans founded a colony at Herakleia in Trachis , which commanded the Thessalian border ( p. 131 ) ; and later in this book we shall follow this thread of Spartan policy further still ( see p. 153 and chapter 14 , p. 186 ) . |
| 20 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 21 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 22 | But Tudor sovereigns did not take their decisions in isolation from pressure and advice . |
| 23 | She asked that if Clemens did not attend his trial in London he be dealt with as convicted in his absence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 26 | ‘ We can be certain that the designer of Class AA ( an undergraduate student ) did not read your article in Wireless World unless it was translated into Japanese ; he can not , read , write or speak English . |
| 27 | It 's unfortunate not having my bank in London . |
| 28 | In a separate conclusion , the advocate general , Karl Otto Lenz , decided that the Commission had not proved its allegations in respect of complaints of unsafe levels of lead in Scottish water . |
| 29 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 30 | You will not mention our name in connection with this order or disclose the existence of this order in any publicity material or other similar communication to third parties without our prior consent in writing . |