Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a step towards her , and it was all she could do not to back away from the menacing look on his face . |
| 2 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 3 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 4 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |
| 5 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 6 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 7 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 8 | ‘ It is to Foinavon 's eternal credit that he did not refuse either at the melee when he had every excuse to or when he was out on his own especially when he was tiring , ’ Buckingham said . |
| 9 | He was able to achieve this amount of leisure because he did not intervene much in the work of the Departments . |
| 10 | Certainly Mr Lamont did not perform well at the hustings ; arguably his Budget last month did not in retrospect maximise the opportunities , limited though they were . |
| 11 | Our prices did not go up at the same rate . |
| 12 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 13 | Their cheer did not go far in the brittle morning air but it pleased her . |
| 14 | So they did not go anywhere near the doctor . |
| 15 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 16 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 17 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 18 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 19 | In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear . |
| 20 | Officers did not go out of the camp to work and they had no contact with women . |
| 21 | Older members of a family did not go out of the house in search of music but to get away from it . |
| 22 | This time , Wilson did not go out in the street to wave goodbye nor did she weep . |
| 23 | The Lords of Trade asked merchants and other interests to give their opinions about policy ; a number of ministers had grants of their own for settlements in North America and clearly expected to benefit as landlords , though they did not go out like the Penns and the Baltimores to take an active role in running their properties . |
| 24 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 26 | 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect . |
| 27 | Many companies in the Heavy Electrical Equipment conspiracy did not dismiss ‘ guilty executives ’ ( for they had merely been doing their job ) but even those who did , did not do so with the intention of ruining them . |
| 28 | Speculation has raged as to whether he did privately support rearmament but the likelihood is that he did not do so before the start of the Korean War . |
| 29 | The paintwork , a dark brown , was peeling and the walls , unusually , had been hurriedly and superficially covered with an ugly beige paper which did not cling properly to the plaster . |
| 30 | They did not talk much in the litter on the way back to Taheb 's house . |