Example sentences of "[adv] not [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better not talk on the phone , had we ? ’ |
| 2 | You know , in the past … ’ she trailed off , she could sense that she 'd better not squat on the bidet to wash between her legs in front of Miss Goldilocks . |
| 3 | ( Warning : your proof had better not apply to the H-numbers introduced above ( see exercise 15 below ) nor to some of the number systems introduced in Section 3.6 ( see exercise 3.6.12 ) where this assertion on gcds is false ! ) |
| 4 | In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments . |
| 5 | I would rather not answer across the Floor of the House the serious point that the hon. Member has raised , but I will certainly look into it and come back to him . |
| 6 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 7 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd rather not say on the telephone . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The NRA would just not respond to the access problems while we had the lease , ’ said Robin . |
| 10 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 11 | Not only could I still not think of the name , I could n't determine the instrument . |
| 12 | Jenna could still not think of the place as partly hers . |
| 13 | One must still not talk to the pet in human language , however . |
| 14 | ‘ The Law Officers advise that , if the Amendment were carried , acts adopted under the Protocol would still not apply to the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | No I sha n't be getting my cheque book out on that basis because as far as I 'm concerned the thing would still not belong to the city . |
| 16 | yeah that 's right , I meant to ask you , do the tills ever not balance at the Co-Op ? |
| 17 | This step should not be left to the patient 's family , who will probably not know of the facility and may be inhibited by questions of expense . |
| 18 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 19 | So the practice itself becomes useful for two different purposes , diagnosis and collaboration , which will probably not happen on the same occasion . |
| 20 | In any case , at that moment his father 's circumstances would probably not allow for the added burden of a son 's university education . |
| 21 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 22 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 23 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | The count 's cold voice and his return to formality assured Maggie that he had seen this small action and now he sat beside her with a set look on his face that told her he might very well not speak for the whole of the journey . |
| 25 | However , even if the bureau has the typeface it may well not appear on the output due to the vagaries of Apple 's font numbering system . |
| 26 | For example the sludge recycling system described earlier will need major realignments between rate payers , water authorities , animal feed manufacturers and farmers ; the necessary re-arrangements may well not emerge on the basis of market forces . |
| 27 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 28 | But the vast majority of such sentences would either not fit into the story ( message ) meaningfully , or would alter the story to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 29 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 30 | ‘ Then why not knock on the damned door ? ’ |