Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 2 | October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year . |
| 3 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 4 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 5 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 6 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 7 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 8 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 9 | It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first , and yet here she was , waiting for Alain Lemarchand , butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick . |
| 10 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 11 | Bangor 's forward power was evident but Banbridge defended well and their defence was not breached again until the 37th minute when McKinty again made the initial surge for Dawson to cross for his second try of the game . |
| 12 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’ |
| 15 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 16 | But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day . |
| 17 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend worried — as I am — that the Bill will perhaps not get through to the next stage given the fact that this morning the Northern Region Councils Association — a Labour-dominated body — wrote to every Member of Parliament in the northern region asking them to be present for this important debate ? |
| 19 | No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election . |
| 20 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |
| 21 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 22 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 23 | In this sense things have not changed much since the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | He hopes , for instance , that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years . |
| 25 | But again this does not help much with the second paradox . |
| 26 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 27 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 28 | After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson . |
| 29 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 30 | erm , you do n't give up at the first little hurdle . |