Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a position where A number of people have the idea that it ca n't be a beneficiary , it can , it often is a beneficiary for the obvious reason that if the beneficiaries are getting the goodies , why not make them do the work necessary to get hold of them ? |
| 2 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 3 | What it does not do it provide the user with any way of removing any viruses found . |
| 4 | She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Can I help you ? ’ she asked , trying not to let him see the amusement in her blue eyes . |
| 6 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 7 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 8 | Perhaps not letting you know the party was off was a Freudian slip . |
| 9 | Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone . |
| 10 | Carol did not let me have a key of my own . |
| 11 | ‘ I have come , ’ I ventured to say , but the mother-in-law briskly discounted me as a person , and would not let me see the doctor . |
| 12 | They also want the trees kept to a height which will not let them block the track should they be blown over . |
| 13 | M and J always tidy up well , so did not let them do the washing/drying up . |
| 14 | She would not let them have the Grimoire . |
| 15 | " Whatever you do do not let them take the book back without admitting that your name is in it . " |
| 16 | Wrap mothballs in muslin and do not let them touch the textiles . |
| 17 | I knew the master would not let her leave the safety of the Grange to go so far , especially as the road to the hills passed close to Wuthering Heights . |
| 18 | ‘ Henry , I can not let you say a word against Victor . |
| 19 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 20 | AUDREY Do n't make me have an affair YOU AND YOUR LOOKS SPECIAL 50 ways to look GREAT this summer |
| 21 | Some women ca n't make it last the week so theirs is kept in the office . |
| 22 | I had n't noticed that he was carrying , not wearing , it and I certainly had n't seen him take the meat . |
| 23 | This can be illustrated by a sentence in the active such as They did n't see him cross the street , which in fact usually implies that he did cross the street , even though he was not seen doing it . |
| 24 | He partic'ly said I was n't to let you lift a finger about the house . ’ |
| 25 | They would n't let me do a thing . |
| 26 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 27 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Richards , if you wo n't let me call an ambulance , I 'll have to take you through to the sick bay here , and nurse you myself . |
| 29 | I mean , my mother left money for me , it 's in a trust , it gives me something , but he wo n't let me touch the rest of it or set up in anything , he 's a trustee . |
| 30 | I ca n't let him organize a search party . |