Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
2 | Simultaneously , in Fangorn Forest , Gandalf , Saruman and Treebeard himself are wandering , meeting or not meeting seemingly at random . |
3 | Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’ |
4 | She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family . |
5 | If Talkin Loud has been criticised in the past for not saying much at all , then the fact that storming releases in 1992 from the Young Disciples and Tammy Payne have taken months to see record shop racks has n't helped . |
6 | And he added : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’ |
7 | At a separate news conference , Sugar was in equally confident mood , telling reporters : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’ |
8 | To cut the housing I had a tungsten carbide cutter ground to 90 degrees inclusive , because as purchased it was not cutting exactly at 45 degrees . |
9 | It 's not cutting out at all now ? |
10 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |
11 | But , as we observe it , nature is not evolving completely at random . |
12 | One may well ask why , with such a generous offer , the chief executives of our generating companies are not queuing up at British Coal 's door . |
13 | The plan was not working out at all well . |
14 | No , be honest now : we were n't going up at all . |
15 | So I was n't going straight at all , but rather crabwise . |
16 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
17 | If they recognise the boat as ‘ friendly ’ and if it is n't rushing around at high speed , they will allow you to get close enough to take photographs . |
18 | He said , cos we find people were n't coming in at nine o'clock , you know |
19 | In the lobby afterwards , acquaintances would pass as if I were n't standing there at all . |