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 ) . |