Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not leer at the advertisements along the underground escalators . |
| 2 | I do n't know , I 've not looked at the programmes , there 's Churchill tonight at nine thirty , must look at that |
| 3 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 4 | Now the time had come for Mrs Wright to be churched and the baby christened ; every member of the garrison who was not occupied at the ramparts had assembled in the rubble-strewn yard of the Residency to hear the service , for it was no longer safe to hold a service in the ruined Church . |
| 5 | The next three days were spent not looking at the buildings and architecture of gay Paree but for a mythical Adidas Centre which one of my mates overheard someone talking about in hushed tones in a Liverpool snug . |
| 6 | Not looking at the cows , but keeping her eyes fixed straight ahead , she pushed her bike past them and then on to the footpath . |
| 7 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 8 | But manager Jim Nelson is certainly not trembling at the knees . |
| 9 | His message is : If you want to understanding knowing , remembering , hoping , and so on , do not look at whatever experiences may go with the use of the words ‘ know ’ , ‘ remember ’ , ‘ hope ’ , do not look at the phenomena ; look , instead , at the transactions of language , look at the grammar of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , look at what is done with these expressions . |
| 10 | They came in but did not look at the cups . |
| 11 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 12 | Mr Scully adds that security considerations may limit what data an individual can look at — London , for instance , can not look at the accounts specific to Hong Kong . |
| 13 | He did not look at the keys . |
| 14 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
| 15 | Dr Johnson would not look at the bones . |
| 16 | If you intend to climb a mountain , you do not look at the foothills and worry ; you keep your eyes fixed on the summit , and that way , if you are very lucky and very determined , you may achieve it . |
| 17 | Cyril did not look at the cows . |
| 18 | I do not look at the rocks and trees , I am frightened of what they see . |
| 19 | My Lord I 'm more than happy to for your Lordship not to not look at the details of the accountant 's evidence at this stage a and concentrate on the witness statements and the documentation which which deals with liability matters . |
| 20 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 21 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 22 | It was brought by the customers when required for use rather than all at once so that large-scale storage was not needed at the mills . |
| 23 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 24 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 25 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 26 | Many special wallcoverings , unlike most papers and vinyls , do not match at the edges . |
| 27 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 28 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 29 | With a cool look , and willing herself not to glance at the greetings card , Lisa reminded him , ‘ But that 's no loss to either of us . |
| 30 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |