Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] anything [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
| 2 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 3 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 4 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 5 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 6 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 7 | I am not saying anything about the short or long-ball game , only what is right at the proper time . |
| 8 | But I have not found anything in the careful judgment of Mustill L.J . |
| 9 | Rachel had already decided not to mention anything about the new MO at OBEX . |
| 10 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 11 | Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 12 | The Customer for the four-processor 128M-word machine , which has a 2.08ns — 480MHz — clock , ‘ fastest in the industry ’ — is the National Center for Atmospheric Research , which will not pay anything during a six-month trial . |
| 13 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 14 | Not finding anything among the existing styles to which she was exposed , she created her own , dedicating it to the Buddhist nun who had taught her , but naming it after herself . |
| 15 | That is what is wrong with narcissistic chat shows which create , then devour , media personalities who have not achieved anything in the real world ; or politics coverage which concentrates on the intra-party power struggles rather than the world to which the party hopes to appeal . |
| 16 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |
| 17 | Blanche looked at Lancaster with a quizzical smile and did not say anything for a full ten seconds . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 19 | She did n't think anything of a personal nature had entered the conversation . |
| 20 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 22 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 23 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 24 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 25 | Even the GenTech wizards , Dr Zarathustra and W. D. Donovan , could only reconstruct a ruined face ; they could n't do anything about a shredded psyche , a ruptured personality , a raped memory … |
| 26 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 27 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 28 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 29 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 30 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |