Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the verandah of the plantation house Auguste Lepine heard the commotion in the compound but in the half-light could not see clearly enough to identify its cause . |
| 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 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 6 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |