Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see , ’ said Fakrid , not seeing at all . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | ‘ One does the work , the others get under my feet , ’ he replied sardonically , not helping at all and ignoring her cool formality . |
| 4 | I 'm not singing at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And , because there is a food shortage , the affected people have the choice of eating contaminated food or not eating at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes thank you , Papa , ’ Artemis replied , not understanding at all what her father meant . |
| 12 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 13 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 14 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 15 | A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians . |
| 16 | Erm it , we 've covered some of it , the rest , er , again , because we 're not looking at such large large sums , you know , as Cover Master for Home Health Checks and things like that , erm , but , basically , no . |
| 17 | We just sat there not looking at each other , all day , until she burst out with all that anger , ‘ You fucking bitch you 've finished the goddam bloody cigarettes . ’ |
| 18 | In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction . |
| 19 | They stood , not looking at each other , with Bob holding the case . |
| 20 | They both sat there , not looking at each other , not daring to move . |
| 21 | He wanted to speak , to say anything so as not to seem sullen or graceless , but there was nothing ; and they went into the restaurant stiffly , not looking at each other . |
| 22 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 23 | A middle-aged woman , matronly in appearance and , thought Tony , not looking at all comical , went straight into a saucy monologue about an amorous coalman who left dusty handprints on various parts of his lady customers ' anatomies . |
| 24 | We 're not looking at that point of view we 're looking at more like working together to find a solution . |
| 25 | Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal . |
| 26 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 27 | It 's not racing at all . |
| 28 | Lawrence Kasdan 's latest film , Grand Canyon ( Odeon , West End , from 1 May ) , is not reassuring at all . |
| 29 | Bob was not sweating at all . |
| 30 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |