Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 32 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 33 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 34 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 35 | Gray did not appreciate at the start of the season that the team was just not good enough . |
| 36 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 37 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 38 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 39 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |
| 40 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 41 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 42 | Cyril did not look at the cows . |
| 43 | Nicholson caught the note of sarcasm in the other man 's voice but he did not turn , did not look at the visitor . |
| 44 | They came in but did not look at the cups . |
| 45 | He did not look at the keys . |
| 46 | Coffin did not look at the severed hands , where he imagined the signs of a fight would show . |
| 47 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 48 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 49 | He did not look at the girl by his side , who was almost as tall as himself ; but he went on talking as she tapped her racquet against the netting . |
| 50 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said he did not look at the deal in terms of oil or gas production and reserves which would be acquired , but rather in terms of cash flow which could be generated for his company by rationalising operations of the two companies in parts of the US where they both have interests . |
| 51 | The Whites had vast total forces but the separate forces did not attack at the same time . |
| 52 | The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged . |
| 53 | Allen was nominated as one of the 135 commissioners ( MPs and others ) to form the high court of justice to conduct the trial of Charles I. The meetings of the court started on 8 January 1649 but Allen did not attend at the Painted Chamber in Whitehall until 17 January . |
| 54 | He had not sought another interview with her , and , as the ladies naturally did not attend at the graveside , the first she had seen of him since then was when the party returned from the funeral . |
| 55 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 56 | They did not know at the beginning of the week how much they would bring home at the end . |
| 57 | Many special wallcoverings , unlike most papers and vinyls , do not match at the edges . |
| 58 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 59 | ‘ If you do not stop at the road-block , you are dead , ’ says a soldier with a grimace . |
| 60 | Catering services do not exist at the beck and call of an immature , over-wealthy child . ’ |