Example sentences of "not [verb] them [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 2 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 3 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 4 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
| 5 | But Mr Oteng added : ‘ It is up to the media to try to dispel racist stereotypes , not push them to the forefront . |
| 6 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 7 | They were in a similar position to the person coming along on a standby basis for an airline seat as against the passenger paying a full fare , and without the full rights of a standby passenger , in the sense that the decision whether or not to accommodate them in the college was entirely discretionary . |
| 8 | But you must not build them on the graveyard . |
| 9 | This would still be so even if Members of Parliament were persuaded to settle issues with Health Authorities and not raise them in the House of Commons when dissatisfied . |
| 10 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 11 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 12 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
| 13 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 14 | Jessamy had promised faithfully not to open them until the morning of her birthday , and she had kept her promise . |
| 15 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 16 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 17 | Once outside , she breathed a sigh of relief , and strolled with Theda around the left of the house , next to Switham Thicket , so that Araminta would not see them from the window of her parlour . |
| 18 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 19 | Why they did not use them in a manner that would almost certainly have sealed the fate of the French at Verdun seems to us almost incredible , and so indeed it seemed to contemporary German critics . |
| 20 | We need to offer disruptive children an education that does not limit them in a straitjacket designed to serve the political and economic needs of a society characterised by a culture of individualism . |
| 21 | He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 . |
| 22 | Theologically , if we are going to accept cremation at all ( given our belief in bodily resurrection ) should we not at least commit the ashes to a grave and not scatter them to the winds ? |
| 23 | And they 're not getting them at the moment . |
| 24 | In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan . |
| 25 | The people in the street outside may tell the market researchers that they are more confident than they were six months ago , but that does not take them into the shop , put their money over the counter or pay the staff wages of the retailer . |
| 26 | Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation . |
| 27 | that it had not provided them with an opportunity to confront their problems , to gain insights into how other parts of the school operated ; |
| 28 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 29 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 30 | where goods are so ] d by a person who is not their owner , and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner , the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had , unless the owner of the goods is by his conduct precluded from denying the seller 's authority to sell . ’ |