Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 2 | So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going . |
| 3 | ‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way . |
| 4 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 5 | Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense . |
| 6 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 7 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
| 8 | The song did not want its own mouth |
| 9 | Why do you not want our own place ? ’ |
| 10 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
| 11 | He did not want his own country to lose its identity in a supranational body . |
| 12 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 13 | However the FBI-style agency will not conduct its own investigations or prosecutions , although many Whitehall insiders believe this could eventually happen . |
| 14 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
| 15 | You say all the parents I spoke to said they had tried not communicate their own fears to their children , but some felt unable to reassure them convincingly . |
| 16 | But it 's not touching what that citizen really feels , and so is unlikely to change him . |
| 17 | She seemed to be almost floating and Maggie was astounded that the sharp stones had not given her enough pain to waken her . |
| 18 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 21 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 22 | It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer . |
| 23 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 24 | I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a Member State may not invoke its own legislation where EEC directives expressly require a Member State to allow the marketing of goods which comply with the provisions of those directives , and more generally national legislation will not be justified if the Community legislation is intended to regulate the matter at issue in a comprehensive manner . |
| 26 | It is possible , though , that some self referrals and patients who did not consult their own doctor during the course of their attack may not have been notified to participating practitioners and thus were excluded from the study . |
| 27 | Australia and New Zealand should not build their own incinerator to dispose of toxic waste , but should instead develop a range of technologies , including portable systems , tailored to the particular properties of the waste . |
| 28 | It need hardly be said that the industrialist of the steam age did not build his own house near the works , as the country factory owners had done . |
| 29 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 30 | Mothers or fathers on their own who can not earn their own living , or who decide ( as they are fully entitled to ) that they would prefer to care for their children instead , must get paid for the important work they do . |