Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.

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1 he or she does not need to look ponderously at each piece on the board to be sure whether it as a pawn or a king .
2 Opposite them were two or three other characters Robert could not remember seeing before at the school .
3 Mr Cullen asked if she could not have run away at the time .
4 IT MIGHT not have seemed so at the time , but Troy Coker 's sending-off for punching against Bath proved to be a blessing in disguise for the quarrelsome Queenslander .
5 I do not propose to say more at this stage , except that I wholly accept the evidence of the surgeon as to the desperate nature of this situation , and that I grant the declaration as sought , which will include provision for the necessary consequential treatment in addition to the Caesarean operation .
6 The court is not allowed to peer inside at the meanings assigned to those elements , except to find a non-jurisdictional error .
7 He took Dinah back to Mrs Patten 's on the strength of the spurious wedding ring ; he could not afford to stay longer at the hotel .
8 QP is not required to give more at this stage .
9 QP is not required to give more at this stage .
10 She suspected that Alain 's mother was anxious for the same reason , and Jenna could not help glancing across at her sympathetically .
11 She could not imagine remaining indefinitely at Four Winds .
12 She wanted to go and yet did n't want to go both at once .
13 When Julius lost his temper , it was a fairly awesome sight — and one that she definitely did n't want to witness right at this moment !
14 Yes , because we wo n't want to know before at , we wo n't want the tickets before October will we ? so er .
15 ‘ I would n't want to come here at night ! ’
16 It was n't an attractive option , especially as she did n't need to glance behind at the carefully packed boot full of vital equipment to know that she had brought no waterproof coat ; she was an optimist by nature and one with no foresight , always a lethal combination .
17 So far she had n't dared to look directly at the Bentley .
18 ‘ Means I do n't have to drive home at any rate , ’ she said .
19 Initially it was the drumming that got me bouncing in my seat , but when the bass came in I just could n't help grinning insanely at all the other drivers , wishing they could hear it too ( mind you , I had it up so loud that they probably could ) .
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