Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 2 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 3 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
| 4 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 5 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 6 | However this difference might not have reflected the additional time taken to draw an inference in the indirect antecedent condition , but rather that there was repetition of a noun in the direct antecedent condition but not in the indirect antecedent condition . |