Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 2 | One did not make tea at half-past six in the evening like the ‘ working classes ’ , as her mother would have called them . |
| 3 | They did not want success at all costs , but likewise they were not willing to jump off the pop escalator , or stand on the spot arguing among themselves . |
| 4 | The intimation that Venables did not want Hughes at Tottenham was that it was a misjudgment by him . |
| 5 | A newsletter writer of August 1692 complained that it was impossible to distinguish between those who did not come to church because they were attending conventicles and those who did not worship God at all , and he predicted the result would be the downfall of the Church of England followed by the triumph of popery . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you will not know Warwickshire at all ? ’ |
| 7 | In fact , it does not desire intimacy at all . |
| 8 | THE computers that most companies want do not beat grandmasters at chess , attempt to predict the weather , or do scientists out of a job . |
| 9 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 10 | Some do not tax gains at all . |
| 11 | However , the random biopsy specimens in the patients with early gastric cancer did not show dysplasia at either investigation . |
| 12 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 13 | ‘ We had a band chat and for ages we were saying we should not do merchandising at all , because it is a sign that you are a really big band and that you are trying to cash in . |
| 14 | Four per cent — 18,000 seven-year-olds -could not do sums at all . |
| 15 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 16 | It follows that I expressly do not give judgement at any figure at this stage but indicate merely what the findings are which I have made and what the sums which those findings lead to , are . |
| 17 | I will not give way at the moment , although I may later . |
| 18 | If they do not sprout , she will not give birth at all ’ . |
| 19 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 20 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 21 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 22 | And the English reader who does not understand that the punning on ‘ Talbot ’ is painful and all but hysterical , like the punning of Shakespeare 's Hamlet , does not understand Pound at all . |
| 23 | She did not dare look at them for too long for fear of missing her footing or forgetting a move but the look on Edward 's face added another notch to her enjoyment . |
| 24 | One does not store statistics at all ; if statistics are ever required they are obtained from one of the business divisions . |
| 25 | Nails did not like evenings at home , which is why he stayed out . |
| 26 | In America , unlike Europe , youngsters who have not paid unemployment contributions can not claim welfare at all . |
| 27 | She did not regain consciousness at any point ; it was almost , he thought bitterly , as if it were not worth her while to say goodbye to him . |
| 28 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 29 | In any case he does not see students at home . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |