Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did not agree with it in the 1980s . |
| 3 | And if you did n't pay for it at the weekend you got no groceries next week . |
| 4 | Well , regarding this business of Buffy and the apple , you know — the pig does n't come into it until the end . |
| 5 | Er , there was such a big staff and as I say , there was no erm the women did n't come into it till the war . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's good news , but I ca n't talk about it on the telephone . |
| 7 | And we especially do n't talk about it at the workplace . ’ |
| 8 | The idea is that you do n't dispose of it in the drains where it can contaminate . |
| 9 | He replied : ‘ I do n't agree with it , I did n't agree with it in the '80s , I was a minority view in the '80s , I am not a minority view now — and anyway I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |