Example sentences of "not [verb] it in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 2 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's promised not to drive it in the rain . ’ |
| 4 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 5 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 6 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 7 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 8 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 9 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 10 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |
| 11 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 12 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's promised not to ride it in the rain ’ |
| 14 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |
| 15 | It was not seen , either , and a story was founded that Ayling would not allow it in the house . |
| 16 | ‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’ |
| 17 | well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper |
| 18 | I accept that the right hon. Gentleman could not go any further at that time , but is he aware that his argument that a change in the defence of provocation might allow for revenge killings is wrong and invalid because juries would not accept it in the case of revenge killings ? |
| 19 | But they did not find it in the hypothalamus . |