Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 2 | As he left the room he urged Elisa not to go away before he got back . |
| 3 | There are still many buildings that are not listed simply because they have not yet been properly surveyed , or have somehow slipped through the net . |
| 4 | No-one was available from the Wales CBI for comment but Meirion Lewis , Welsh spokesman for the Institute of Directors , said he was surprised at the findings of the study , but could not comment further until he had seen it . |
| 5 | Hence people who enter the premises as lawful visitors may not remain so if they step outside of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 7 | Surely corporations will not deviate easily when they realize just how high civil damages can be ? |
| 8 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 9 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 10 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 11 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 12 | With an opportunity we do not know exactly where we want to go until we have found it . |
| 13 | We do not know yet whether he wants to extend his visit for a short time to see friends , or become a student , or stay permanently . ’ |
| 14 | It does not know quite where it belongs , or what it stands for . |
| 15 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 16 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 17 | The swing is pushed and is not pushed again until it has come right back to its starting point . |
| 18 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 19 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 20 | ‘ I did not show today because I have not trained for three weeks , ’ he said . |
| 21 | It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt . |
| 22 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 23 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 24 | ‘ The directors could not do worse if they tried , ’ commented Fernando Calazans , a leading newspaper columnist . |
| 25 | In practice , of course , we would not do so unless we thought the commercial circumstances warranted it . |
| 26 | Our Higher Self is eager to give us a life full of love , joy , success and abundance ; but it will not do so until we say ‘ Yes ’ , and we keep turning our backs on it . |
| 27 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |
| 28 | But many of those people who spend time making a good copy need not do so if they thought about the essay properly beforehand . |
| 29 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 30 | It does not break even if it lands directly on other eggs because its shell is twice as thick as those of the host bird . |