Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it in the " in BNC.

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1 Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes .
2 We do not want it in the dictionary .
3 The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up .
4 In a letter to Gilbert dated 16 November , 1840 he wrote : ‘ As I find the fauna of New Holland quite distinct and that of New Zealand to belong to an entirely different group of Islands I have determined not to include it in the present work ; you will therefore not go there … ’
5 He began to eat his breakfast , not enjoying it in the least .
6 ‘ He 's promised not to drive it in the rain . ’
7 So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) .
8 Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place ,
9 I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle .
10 So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range .
11 She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share .
12 What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream .
13 You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs .
14 I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar .
15 They do not mind it in the least , as long as the water is warm .
16 Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it
17 He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies .
18 It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat .
19 And while Robert Wilson admits that the appeal of managing his own company could become a reality one day , he does not envisage it in the near future .
20 That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses .
21 England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn .
22 For not getting it in the nets .
23 I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance .
24 ‘ He 's promised not to ride it in the rain ’
25 That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court .
26 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
27 It was not seen , either , and a story was founded that Ayling would not allow it in the house .
28 ‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’
29 well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper
30 The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place .
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