Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 2 | They do not think of him as a sacrifice offered to God . |
| 3 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 4 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 8 | Please do not refer to me as a girlie , I demanded of Bob , it 's insulting . |
| 9 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 12 | Because Jane did not look on him as a , as a man but as an idol . |
| 13 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 14 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 15 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 23 | I appreciate that one must approach the matter with considerable caution , and that we can not go at it in a bull-at-a-gate fashion . |
| 24 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He must not sneak over them in a halfhearted way nor must he be allowed to flatten over them . |
| 27 | ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ? |
| 28 | ‘ But you will not come with me to the Delta ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |