Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 3 | I did not catch his last words ; perhaps he said , ‘ … of others ’ . |
| 4 | Emma still did not know her first name . |
| 5 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 6 | Did we not brief it last month ? |
| 7 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 8 | Ivan Lendl will not achieve his last great ambition — to be Wimbledon Singles Champion . |
| 9 | She did not repeat her last statement but she said , ‘ Go … go away , please . |
| 10 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 11 | He does not give his last name . |
| 12 | And you 'll not see it next |
| 13 | We can begin to foresee the time when old people will not spend their last years in large wards which lack privacy or any pretence at being homely . ’ |
| 14 | Think of the actor suffering from stage-fright who can not remember his first line . |
| 15 | I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting . |
| 16 | Then we 'll see can we not set you next in line for chief of Clan Gillian . ’ |
| 17 | What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ? |
| 18 | They had been marginally the more dangerous side , but there was nothing then to suggest that Bradford might not complete their third win of the season over Leeds . |
| 19 | The party Statutes of FET y de las JONS were published on 4 August , but the principal consultative organism , the National Council , was not created until October of that year and did not hold its first meeting until December . |
| 20 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 21 | ‘ If ‘ beauty is the splendour of truth ’ , agriculture can not fulfil its second task , which is to humanise and ennoble man 's wider habitat , unless it clings faithfully and assiduously to the truths revealed by nature 's living processes . |
| 22 | Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles . |
| 23 | But season ticket holders will not get their first discounts until January 1993 . |
| 24 | — For the keen fun runner , why not get your next full or half marathon sponsored . |
| 25 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 26 | Do not subject the person to any sudden extreme changes of temperature — so do not put them next to a fire or give them hot water bottles or heavy layers of clothes or blankets . |
| 27 | Given the substantial gap in standards between Scottish club rugby and the international arena , the Scots , who do not play their next game until February 3 , clearly need all the match practice they can get at the highest competitive level . |
| 28 | Pray for all those training for the mission field at the Glasgow Bible College or the Scottish Baptist College , that they would be anointed for their task and that they would not lose their first love of Jesus Himself as they study scriptures . |
| 29 | He claimed that tournament judges had openly declared they would not place him first because he was ‘ queer . ’ |
| 30 | Normal subjects always begin a sleep period with slow wave sleep , and do not start their first REM sleep period for at least forty-five minutes , sometimes as long as two hours . |