Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you 've proved your point about me not knowing enough to be a manager . |
| 2 | She came to see him once , was shy and vague and noncommittal , later wrote to say it was best for them not to see each other again . |
| 3 | In general , it is often unnecessary for exporters to cover every currency risk but imprudent for them not to cover any risk . |
| 4 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 5 | And then with her not getting any money , you know . |
| 6 | If the latter is the case , it is probably due to them not receiving enough light . |
| 7 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
| 8 | But on nearly all occasions the answers have actually seemed to me not to require any special insight into unique cultural peculiarities . |
| 9 | It was now 6.22am , and their ETA at Koepang was 7.15am , so Wood decided that altering course any further was not worthwhile , as they were near enough to Timor for it not to make much difference . |
| 10 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 11 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |