Example sentences of "not [verb] on [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a month of storage in a tank or lagoon , the slurry should be safe enough for spreading — although cattle should not graze on it for a month . |
| 2 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because Jane did not look on him as a , as a man but as an idol . |
| 5 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 8 | " I hope you were n't depending on him for a lift , were you ? " he asked Graham . |
| 9 | ‘ You did n't jump on us like a friend , ’ Allen objected . |
| 10 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 11 | Do n't eat or drink too many and do n't snack on them during the day . |