Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 2 | Edward said : ‘ I 'd better not mention it to Morton , then , had I ? |
| 3 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 4 | But you 'd better not try anything in this school , young lady . |
| 5 | ‘ But you 'd better not see him for too long . |
| 6 | You better not get it on the furniture as well , keep it away from the furniture , now put it on the paper or else do n't use it |
| 7 | obviously not said anything to Pete about me |
| 8 | Travis was impatient to get on , but Paige was in a Libran mood , depressed and bloody-minded enough not to allow herself to be chivvied before she was ready . |
| 9 | For example , individuals brought up in a truly Marxist society would presumably not regard themselves as the subjects of history , whereas those in bourgeois society believe that they are intentional agents . |
| 10 | Clad in his trademark leather jacket and trousers , Lord Christopher , said yesterday : ‘ It 's all a bit dodgy at the moment and I 'd rather not say anything at this stage . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone . |
| 12 | I mean there 's carnage on these roads of ours , and people are just not doing anything about it or taking it seriously enough . |
| 13 | Linda knows what it is , but I 'm just not saying anything about it . |
| 14 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 15 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 16 | The work begins in classic Hegelian style : ‘ Mental life begins with an undifferentiated state in which the Ego and its objects are not yet distinguished ; consciousness is filled with impressions and perceptions while the bearer of these contents has still not detached himself from them ’ ( 1978 : 63 ) . |
| 17 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 18 | The good thing about the forest is that you can have a lot of people around and still not have everybody in one area , you can still get a feeling of wilderness . |
| 19 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 20 | Poindexter said he had told North repeatedly not to put anything in writing about the transfer of funds to the contras . |
| 21 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 22 | THE CASE of the diabetic who took insulin for 52 years , only to turn out not to need it at all , is bemusing doctors . |
| 23 | But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs . |
| 24 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 25 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 26 | Although the Court of Appeal expressed no opinion on it , the court was clearly concerned that the employer might possibly be able to protect himself from the use of the employee 's skill and knowledge post employment by means of express provision if the employee were simply to sell that knowledge as a commodity ( ie not use it as a means to gain further employment ) . |
| 27 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 28 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 29 | However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be . |
| 30 | ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . ) |