Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for any reason the balance is not received by us by the due date , we reserve the right to cancel bookings covered by the Confirmation and account and levy a cancellation charge as though there has been a cancellation in accordance with paragraph 4 . |
| 2 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 3 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 4 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 5 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 6 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 7 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 8 | He has also insisted that we will not keep troops on the ground when the war is over , and that a solution must be found by the local governments and not imposed on them by the US and/or Britain . |
| 9 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 10 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 11 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 12 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 13 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 14 | With any luck they would not run across her during the day , although for press purposes both Major and Hurd would have to say how pleased they were to hear of her arrival . |
| 15 | Those who were waking said afterwards that it did not move towards them across the sky from any direction , but burst suddenly , directly above them , in a great whirlwind and a peal of thunder . |
| 16 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 17 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 18 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 19 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
| 20 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 21 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 22 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ? |
| 24 | ‘ But you will not come with me to the Delta ? ’ |
| 25 | We all know why we are there , But there is a constant control and you go to bed not knowing if they might not come for you in the night . |
| 26 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 27 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 28 | It is to be observed that in the Bognor Regis case Browne J. did not consider whether his decision had any effect on the right to freedom of expression , doubtless because the point was not taken before him by the defendant , who appeared in person . |
| 29 | She had not condoled with him on the death of Jonas . |
| 30 | I 'm not quarrelling with you about the money . |