Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dobbs , who is chairman of Telecottages UK , warns possible users not to get bogged down with the technology : ‘ The equipment is a tool to overcome what needs to be done . |
| 2 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 3 | The secret is not to get carried away with the yumminess of it all and order too much . |
| 4 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 5 | He was philosophical , not to say laid back about the inconvenience of being called out unnecessarily at the end of what had already been a long day . |