Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 2 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |
| 3 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 4 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 5 | and , and you know you could n't get a lot of money , although of course nationally , the rates of pay were governed nationally , they were going up and up and up and there was no way that we could keep pace , we could n't keep on increasing the tuppeny fare . |
| 6 | In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again . |
| 7 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 8 | ‘ At least I do n't go round killing the poor buggers , ’ he says . |
| 9 | They do n't go on to explore the other stitches that their machine can do . |
| 10 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |