Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] a [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | I will not make a Second Reading speech now , but simply say that a safety culture built around individuals and the operating companies ' involvement and responsibilities is the only way to ensure the safest possible working environment . |
2 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |
3 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |
4 | Of course she did not believe a word Sean O'Farrell was saying . |
5 | B B C radio Nottingham is proud and pleased to take you to the major of far away places so why not spend a November Tuesday night in Rochdale with us . |
6 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
7 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
8 | Bath do not have a Willie Ofahengaue to launch those killer moves from the back row , but with Barnes , Guscott and Swift they do have a midfield and a right wing fully capable of cashing in on the Campese option . |
9 | If there is detrital material in the stalagmite , such as clay and limestone , it will not have a zero TL signal at the time of the stalagmite 's formation . |
10 | We know little of how the Politburo reached its decisions-it did not produce a Richard Crossman — although some information has been provided by members in the glasnost period ( for example it appears that , as in the British Cabinet , formal votes were rarely taken ) . |
11 | I 'm behaving naturally , not dancing a Gene Kelly in the streets , but keeping visible enough for tired eyes to see . |
12 | The Bill came on second , had less than two hours debate and , according to the normal customs and practices of this House , did not receive a Second Reading . |
13 | Wages , meanwhile , were held down — or , at best , rose only very slowly ; and it does n't need a Mr. Micawber to tell us that the net result for thousands of families was a fluctuation in living standards bordering all too often on total destitution . |
14 | I would n't buy a Lowden LSE for four-on-the-floor bluegrass flatpicking , but for melody/fingerstyle techniques with jazz or Celtic influences , it 's a winner . |
15 | If someone carried a cane he was so scared he could n't be caught ; and if the person did n't carry a cane Moz tried to attack them ! |
16 | Ooh it 's this spot , I shall in a minute you have n't seen a leaflet Dave , for Debenhams have you ? |
17 | Did n't lift a finger Dave to put it out . |
18 | I could n't give a toss Peter . |
19 | I have n't got a penny Nicola . |
20 | This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits . |
21 | What hang on just a minute sorry ca n't I ca n't hear you you 'll have to speak up I ca n't hear a word Karen lives in Tadcaster oh oh another another another place to avoid really is n't it yes yeah . |
22 | I remember a drunken coversation with him along the lines of you ca n't call a cat Lukic it has to be Bonetti . |
23 | Dean Smyth is transfer-listed in goal and I do n't have a Billy Caskey or Ray Morrison in midfield . |
24 | Are you sure you wo n't have a coffee Ken ? |
25 | ‘ Just pray we do n't get a North Atlantic fog , because in those latitudes we could roll in the swells for days , with the moisture beading the shrouds and the air as cold as charity , and always being terrified that a super-tanker will barrel out of the muck at full speed to thump you under her bows without even knowing you were ever there . ’ |
26 | Somehow I ca n't imagine a Park Avenue matron shelling out $200,000 to hang this startling pre-connubial portrait on her living-room wall — no matter that the work is executed by an artist who has been likened to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol and called the genius of his generation . |