Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 2 | Roman does not want you here at all , Signorina Hastings . |
| 3 | How can I be sure you have not given it away to another ? " |
| 4 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 5 | I 'm not eating it quickly at all , it 's just catching a filling every time I eat it . |
| 6 | However , we shall not discuss them further in this book . |
| 7 | They had not expected him back before one o'clock . |
| 8 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 9 | You know it , it was good and that 's , you know , and that 's not knocking you apart at all |
| 10 | They would not wait it out like this for long . |
| 11 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Now that Antoinette was dead , there was no one to repeat to her to be careful , not to drop it , to try at least to walk like a lady , not to plonk it down like that . |
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| 14 | Contrary to belief , this does not lift you out of this world in which you live , but it does allow you to take your rightful place within this world in the totality of your being . |
| 15 | At Hertford in 1705 , according to Tutchin , when it became clear that the Tackers " could not carry it there by Legal Votes " , the town magistrates created between 100 and 150 " Honorary Freemen , all of the Tackers side " , and managed to ensure a Tory victory . |
| 16 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 17 | Even Shelford could not work them out of that one . |
| 18 | I did not remember it quite like that , but I began to feel he was a good-hearted , sincere man . |
| 19 | He might desire her — he did desire her — but he would not marry her only for that ! |
| 20 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 21 | I did not meet him socially until 1975 when we were both invited as guest speakers to the annual dinner of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne division of the Royal Naval Reserves . |
| 22 | She had played a part that was alien to her nature and she had not played it well at all . |
| 23 | We can not have you here in all the circumstances . |
| 24 | Dave Mellor did not have it away with that repellent tart . |
| 25 | This would mean that all of the degrees in theology , faithful church attendance and good works are worthless if we do not have it together in this one area . |
| 26 | For instance , it has been noted that when ‘ parents are depressed and irritable they do not take it out on all their children to the same extent : often one is more or less scapegoated . |
| 27 | ‘ Cathy Henderson better not hear him on like that , ’ Natasha said . |
| 28 | I 'm not giving you much at all . |
| 29 | So you know he 's offered two per cent and they 're not giving it out to many people . |
| 30 | And that , you know , not tying them up with endless pettifogging regulations . |