Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 2 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 3 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 4 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 5 | With any luck they would not run across her during the day , although for press purposes both Major and Hurd would have to say how pleased they were to hear of her arrival . |
| 6 | Those who were waking said afterwards that it did not move towards them across the sky from any direction , but burst suddenly , directly above them , in a great whirlwind and a peal of thunder . |
| 7 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 8 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 9 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 10 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
| 11 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 12 | ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ? |
| 13 | ‘ But you will not come with me to the Delta ? ’ |
| 14 | We all know why we are there , But there is a constant control and you go to bed not knowing if they might not come for you in the night . |
| 15 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 16 | I did not agree with it in the 1980s . |