Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 2 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 3 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 4 | You will not respect yourself in the morning . |
| 5 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 6 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 7 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 8 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 9 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
| 10 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 11 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 12 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 13 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 14 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 15 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 16 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |
| 17 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 18 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’ |
| 20 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 21 | The rules of an artificial formal logic will not guide one in the search for the natures of things . |
| 22 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 23 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |
| 24 | I will wear his clothes , I will not change anything in the house . ’ |
| 25 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 26 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |
| 27 | But complete ignorance of their general structure will not raise him in the esteem of his professional clients . |
| 28 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
| 29 | It was not seen , either , and a story was founded that Ayling would not allow it in the house . |
| 30 | Can you not put them in the bottom of the cupboard and get rid of that bag ? |