Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa . |
| 2 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 3 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 4 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |
| 5 | Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it . |
| 6 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |