Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 2 | He stared at her anxiously , then at Slater , and tried hard not to look as interested as he felt . |
| 3 | ‘ It wo n't take long , but she 'd better not stay here . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't ask ; I told Gina where I was going but I 'd better not stay too long . ’ |
| 5 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 6 | " You 'd better not go over with that on you , " he said , looking at her middle . |
| 7 | And just in case I may say things I 'll be sorry for , I 'd better not go on , except for one last word . |
| 8 | Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up . |
| 9 | Confused now at all the permutations of possibilities , Chesarynth decided on the safest course : I 'd better not give too much away . |
| 10 | I 'd better not come down , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 11 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 12 | Oh well , maybe I 'd better not try then ! |
| 13 | Just wait until I get the time and I 'll show them who 's boss … but I 'd better not wait too long ! |
| 14 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 15 | So I 'd better not hang around here much longer . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd better not hang about , then . ’ |
| 17 | You 'd best not come back , ’ she added . |
| 18 | But Caroline had not hired on as a saleswoman , and she 'd certainly not hired on to be sociable . |
| 19 | COUNCILLORS vowed yesterday not to give in to unruly schoolchildren who bring mayhem to Cleveland buses . |
| 20 | Mr Hanson said the Executive Council , Hong Kong 's colonial cabinet , decided yesterday not to push ahead with the bill to cover local elections in 1994 and legislative elections a year later . |
| 21 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 22 | And she 'll forgive him just this once and it had better not happen again . |
| 23 | Pilger had agreed but had apparently not realized how this weakened his position . |
| 24 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 25 | For , while Léopold Senghor and Houphouet-Boigny were able to communicate with their political colleagues in Paris , they had nevertheless not forgotten how to communicate with their own people . |
| 26 | In re-examining the slides McDade came across a colony he had just not seen previously . |
| 27 | They had still not turned up by two o'clock , and since their sandwich lunch was in the car , Jack and Warnie were feeling ‘ uncommonly peckish ’ . |
| 28 | Chinua Achebe 's novel , Anthills of the Savannah published in 1987 suggested that such leadership had still not emerged almost twenty years later . |
| 29 | We were now ready — apart from the fact that the team had still not played together ! |
| 30 | Poor Daisy , disapproved of from both sides ( for Joszef 's family had still not come round , though she had adopted their religion ) . |