Example sentences of "[adv] not [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 2 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 3 | Switch it on there it 's just not working at all . |
| 4 | Thus it is possible to start quite modestly and gradually build a really powerful system , while staff and overheads remain low ( possibly not expanding at all ) and knowledge and information multiply . |
| 5 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 6 | I 've sat on the district management board of Health Authority for four years and watched Labour Councillors coming sometimes , often not coming at all , sitting there saying nothing , debating very little in the way of useful contributions until , I have to say , Councillor came along and er a er , sorry to get you unpopular with the rest of your colleagues |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It seems that my mind is then not working at any high pressure intellectually and , somehow or other , it is receptive to completely new ideas . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 11 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |