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Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [pron] to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	At first we considered moving to Devon , which we had come to know during speaking engagements for Mark Bonham-Carter at Torrington and Jeremy Thorpe at Barnstaple , but not seeing anything to our liking , turned our thoughts to our native Scotland .
2	He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests .
3	‘ Yeah — Mum , I told you , did n't I — ’ Cal suddenly got excited — ‘ it 's because Bina 's not allowing herself to be what she ought to be !
4	She examined the cat slowly and carefully , not allowing herself to be distracted by the thought of Mr Miller waiting irritably for the vaccination cards or her future appointment with Dawn .
5	I 'm not attaching it to you this time at all
6	Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us
7	I 'm not forcing them to be anything because we have other bands and artists who we can force and push to success .
8	such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it .
9	The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues .
10	The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes .
11	Later , he declared , From the beginning Islam represented a political power , not limiting itself to problems of religious practice .
12	For though princes might now punish delinquent vassals or officials ( see pp. 360 , 286 ) , there was solid political sense in not subjecting them to the same penalties as lesser men .
13	He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant .
14	Oh well I I 'm not expecting it to be a , a miracle .
15	I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way .
16	I was talking to Mike McFarlane when Allan came up and interrupted us and spoke to Mac , looking me over but not saying anything to me .
17	‘ I 'm not doing anything to you , ’ he breathed into her ear , ‘ we 're doing it to each other . ’
18	You , I 'm not doing anything to you and I 'll flatten you if you do that again !
19	You 're not asking me to and there therefore therefore
20	‘ We 're not asking him to .
21	‘ I 'm not asking you to , ’ he said coldly .
22	I 'm not asking you to .
23	Paul is not asking us to be passive .
24	It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’
25	‘ Ah , but that was when I was only pumping you for information , not giving it to you .
26	I 'm not giving it to you out of charity , I 'm giving it as a present to my son .
27	Our approach has the advantage of not tying us to a particular syntax and semantics for the space of expressions .
28	I 'm not tying you to a specific month , but about January nineteen eighty five you would give the figures for the printing of the first brochure
29	eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for
30	Volvo , the European Tour 's main benefactor , had accused the leading money winners of disloyalty by not committing themselves to the end-of-season showpiece , the Volvo Masters in Spain .