Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not thanking anyone at Murrayfield for accepting the itinerary ’ , Sole said . |
| 2 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 3 | Children will encounter the Christian Church in the outside world , and will meet with Christianity among their contemporaries as they grow up , even if they have not met it at home . |
| 4 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 5 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
| 7 | But as you can not see me at present with any advantage to yourself , I leave for Tunbridge , my dear , and hope we shall better understand one another on my return . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's not overdoing it at school is he ? ’ |
| 9 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 10 | If those companies can not sell their products at home , and if the Government do not encourage them at home , people abroad will not be encouraged to buy them either . |
| 11 | I have not woken them at dawn with my racket , I have not drawn on the wall in felt-tip , I have not hugged Wally the cat round the neck , I have not spat out my liver and spinach , put worms in the watering can , cacked my pants , made brown finger paintings on the wall … |
| 12 | And why , having quoted one or more of these primatial passages , did he not produce them at Rome for confirmation ? |
| 13 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 14 | Had Curtly Ambrose , supported by umpire Barker , not ejected him at Bridgetown three winters ago , who knows ? |
| 15 | He 'll not hide himself at Riverstown . ’ |
| 16 | Not leave them at school at all |
| 17 | It does not infuse itself at conception — or any other magic moment . |
| 18 | We have created a framework in which Europe can develop its defence role in a way which complements the American presence in Europe and does not put it at risk . |
| 19 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 20 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 21 | Woolridge swore that he would not visit her at Windsor again , unfortunately an oath that he failed to keep . |
| 22 | If the killer wanted Michael dead , why not shoot him at Barak 's house ? ’ |
| 23 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 24 | They wo n't want 'em at t'front door . |
| 25 | I honestly do n't think anyone at PW would have any complaint about how it 's turned out . |
| 26 | Will did n't need me at home , because he was busy writing his new play , A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 27 | My gran do n't buy me at Christmas . |
| 28 | And if you ca n't organize yourself at work then it 's a ten to a penny that you ca n't organize the other bits either . |
| 29 | She does n't do it at home , she can easily go out |
| 30 | Verbal messages become more hostile , more aggressive , and the threat of rejection may be offered ( ‘ If you ca n't do it this way , do n't do it at all' — fail and you must go elsewhere ) . |