Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults were dropping out of evening classes because they did not like learning with the children who were ‘ catching up ’ on their schooling , feeling embarrassed or ashamed . |
| 2 | But life , as Harry had learned , did not function according to the principles of wish-fulfilment . |
| 3 | But it is vital that supporting such ventures does not mean playing into the hands of the wrong people and so enabling exploitative interests to pluck the fruit of poor people 's toil and initiative . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 5 | let them live it , do n't want saving for the children , no , they do n't want nothing |
| 6 | Whether it is flying through the valleys of Norway in a landscape lit only by the dim glow of the snow-covered mountains , or across the almost solid darkness of Salisbury Plain , you ca n't beat flying with the owls and the bats . |
| 7 | What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ? |
| 8 | ‘ My man said he would n't mind looking after the kids . ’ |
| 9 | This brought them a very high class of customer who did n't mind paying over the odds for something that little bit naughtier . |
| 10 | I feel that very strongly , I mean a lot of people have said , a lot of people in the flats have said , well I do n't want to move out of the area , I do n't like living in the flats , but I do n't want to move out of the . |
| 11 | I do n't like going to the shops ! |
| 12 | I ca n't stop thinkin' about the bastards . |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't go clambering over the cliffs , did you ? ’ |
| 14 | I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses |
| 15 | ‘ As long as the waves do n't start hitting into the sides of the canoe we wo n't be swamped . ’ |
| 16 | You can discuss business any time you like , as long as you do n't start moralising about the redundancies in Farthingdales … ’ |
| 17 | When I did yours I could n't help looking at the photographs in the leather frame . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't help reading between the lines of his letters to Serafin . |