Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see , ’ said Fakrid , not seeing at all . |
| 2 | And they 're not forgiving from that point of view . |
| 3 | He said that " the essence of the duty seems more likely to be that of not using without paying rather than of not using at all " . |
| 4 | He was not reacting to this latest development , but to something that was going on outside . |
| 5 | These were not binding on all members of the ASC in the way that SSAPs were , nor did they require the approval of the councils of the six professional bodies . |
| 6 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 7 | Further , it is not binding on this court . |
| 8 | The programme is not binding on any of the signatories but is likely to influence the lending and spending of Western donors . |
| 9 | The company 's actions in entering into a contract with Riche were ultra vires , and therefore the contract between the company and Riche was void and not binding upon either party . |
| 10 | And if we did spent twelve hundred pounds on an aeroplane and came back with fifty million pounds worth of grants , I 'm not apologising for that . |
| 11 | ‘ One does the work , the others get under my feet , ’ he replied sardonically , not helping at all and ignoring her cool formality . |
| 12 | ‘ Singapore is not competing with these countries but promoting all ASEAN countries so that the region as a whole can offer the full range of resources and become a global economic power , ’ said Mr Lee . |
| 13 | I 'm not singing at all . |
| 14 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 15 | Try drinking lots of water instead : not eating at all for a day to clear out the system ( unless you are a diabetic or have some other dietary problem ) ; having a warm bath and a nap ; going for a long walk . |
| 16 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 17 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |
| 18 | And , because there is a food shortage , the affected people have the choice of eating contaminated food or not eating at all . |
| 19 | So if we do under-fund , and I 'm not suggesting in these proposals that there is any major under-funding in the proposals in front of you this morning , but the dangers of under-funding are that , inevitably they will first impact on the end that we are being asked to develop as alternatives . |
| 20 | But I was through and not stuck in the dreadful clutch of metal links , not grasped by debris , not drowning without any chance of rescue . |
| 21 | ( Many different early blueprints may play into this and compound the fear of the opposite sex , but we are not elaborating on this , as homosexuality is not the subject of this book . ) |
| 22 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 23 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 24 | I remember having some trouble not laughing during that scene . |
| 25 | By 10.00am we realize our mistake in not pressing on all night . |
| 26 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 27 | A person 's real self-interest would lie in his not keeping to such an agreement , while others did . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes thank you , Papa , ’ Artemis replied , not understanding at all what her father meant . |
| 29 | I if that is understood and that is accepted that would meet Mr 's point in that it is , it is in fact in order and , and is not interfering with another panel 's responsibilities . |
| 30 | No player not appearing in that particular game dared put his face round the door . |