Example sentences of "not [verb] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not consider having careers in the Stock Exchange or the City . |
| 2 | Gen Zia opposed the agreement because it did not include transferring power from the communist rulers to the Muslim rebels his government had armed for a decade . |
| 3 | ( c ) The defence of ex turpi causa would not apply having regard to the changing public opinion of suicide . |
| 4 | The Government could not resist adding offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 and 1920 . |
| 5 | Small wonder that people were star-struck by this ‘ deeply anti-democratic mind ’ ; or that even the most serious commentators , like William Safire , could not resist having cracks at the screenplay |
| 6 | The University is budgeting for a deficit in 1992–3 leading to an accumulated deficit at the end of the year of £3.7m , having decided that the general financial outlook was sufficiently encouraging for it not to delay allocating funds towards the backlog of long-term maintenance ( see para. 3.8 above ) ; it believes that there will be a small but steady growth in student numbers , and that changes in the HEFCE 's method of distributing funds for research will benefit it . |
| 7 | The bid to crack the American market had n't worked , as Isidore Ostrer explained , due to ‘ the fact that we are not accorded playing time in the most important situations , these being almost exclusively controlled by American producing interests . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't fancy playing tag along the road with those guys , even if you do , so stop complaining . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand , she certainly did n't fancy joining Fen in the confined space between tiller and cabin . |
| 10 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |
| 11 | It is a magnificent setting but I do n't like playing music in the open air , and the acoustics there are not perhaps as good as they are claimed to be . |
| 12 | Erm I do n't like putting people on the spot if I can possibly |
| 13 | She probably could n't avoid having dinner at the château , but at least she would n't be alone with him there . |
| 14 | Ros does n't recommend bringing age into the open , unless you 're certain that it 's on the interviewer 's mind . |
| 15 | Strangely , though , he does n't mention reading Plutarch on the battlefield . |
| 16 | ‘ One ca n't go writing letters to the papers , like you . |
| 17 | ‘ The police do n't go dumping bodies on the underground line . ’ |
| 18 | But now she could n't help feeling disquiet at the way he talked about ‘ lots to drink ’ . |