Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly you did not quarrel with them all the time . |
| 2 | No I 've not looked at it that way . |
| 3 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 4 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 5 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
| 6 | sort that cultural otherness does not carry with it any necessary hierarchy of superiority/inferiority which can be appropriately labelled by such terms as " primitive " , " backward " , " underdeveloped " , " childish " , " ignorant " , " simple " , " primeval " , " pre-literate " , or whatever . |
| 7 | Obviously , recognition does not carry with it any guarantee of military protection . |
| 8 | ‘ But we have 300 representatives and we can not look at them all simultaneously . ’ |
| 9 | When we create a new nation , however , we can not transfer to it this prescriptive authority which is the essence of our own state . |
| 10 | It did not occur to them that , together , they could overpower the pair . |
| 11 | If we ca n't answer them this very day , or in fact , if they do not occur to you this very day , but on subse quent occasions , of course , we will endeavour to answer the points a little later on . |
| 12 | I 've not got through them all , I was just reading selective pieces |
| 13 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |
| 14 | She could see he had not thought of it this way . |
| 15 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 16 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 17 | It was impossible not to stare at him all the time . |
| 18 | Morning Jo Morning Margaret Morning Paula Oh she 's not speaking to me this morning Paula . |
| 19 | It was a technological triumph and a magnificent intelligence coup , or would have been had the Russians not know about it all the time . |
| 20 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 21 | They 're not coming to you this week Ange ? |
| 22 | Reference was made in the course of the argument to a number of Commonwealth and American decisions , but I have not found in them any reasoning persuasive of a view contrary to that which I have formed in the light of the English and Scottish authorities . |
| 23 | Sloan Wilson did not sneer at it that way in his autobiography , What Shall We Wear To This Party : |
| 24 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless one must remember that , although they enhance the purchaser 's contractual rights against his seller , they do not confer upon him any rights against other persons . |
| 26 | You can make it paid up , i.e. freezing the policy so that you do not pay into it any more , but wait until the end of the term to take any profits it has made . |
| 27 | The group 's belief in its own uncritical thinking : ‘ Let's not go over it all again . |
| 28 | He could not go through it all again . |
| 29 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 30 | He said I 'm not fighting for you any more and the queen as she seen his face some days before |