Example sentences of "at [adv] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they do not perform Jacob 's absurd pantomine of prostrating themselves seven times . |
| 2 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 3 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 4 | At least we did not get the goose . |
| 5 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 6 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |
| 7 | At least she does not recognize who she is talking to , for God is in strange disguise . |
| 8 | But at least she did not squint and his cast seemed more noticeable than ever in the morning , as if sleeping refreshed it . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a bit young for getting sons , Gabriel , ’ she said , but at least she did not laugh . |
| 10 | I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out . |
| 11 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 12 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 13 | Fortunately , with weight shift , moving forwards causes a nose-up rather than a nose-down effect so that at least it does not accentuate the pitching movement and make the sensation worse . |
| 14 | Moving was difficult , but at least it did not hurt . |
| 15 | The brown carpet was cigarette-burned and none too clean , but at least it did not clash with the shabby beige of the walls . |
| 16 | Although at sometimes we did not get on we generally were content playing together . |