Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not answer straight away but stared , quite unruffled , down into her angry green eyes . |
| 2 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 3 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 4 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 5 | The Company was pleased to accept , but things did not progress as smoothly as had been anticipated . |
| 6 | The test certainly covers , and therefore condemns unequivocally , the American dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; it does , however , not deal as absolutely as did Pope John in Pacem in Terris with all possible aspects of modern war or even with every possible use of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 8 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 9 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 10 | The deification of the Emperors , introduced by Augustus , was not taken too seriously and signified little more than in later ages was implied by the adjective ‘ Holy ’ in the title ‘ Holy Roman Emperor ’ . |