Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposite them were two or three other characters Robert could not remember seeing before at the school . |
| 2 | Mr Cullen asked if she could not have run away at the time . |
| 3 | IT MIGHT not have seemed so at the time , but Troy Coker 's sending-off for punching against Bath proved to be a blessing in disguise for the quarrelsome Queenslander . |
| 4 | The truth was that Mr Wolski was sad with himself , for he did not wish to stay on at the Zoo any longer . |
| 5 | He took Dinah back to Mrs Patten 's on the strength of the spurious wedding ring ; he could not afford to stay longer at the hotel . |
| 6 | As he moved past the man 's shoulder on his way back , Harry could not help glancing down at the book . |