Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 4 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's not overdoing it at school is he ? ’ |
| 8 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not leave them at school at all |
| 13 | It does not infuse itself at conception — or any other magic moment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | They wo n't want 'em at t'front door . |
| 17 | Will did n't need me at home , because he was busy writing his new play , A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 18 | My gran do n't buy me at Christmas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She does n't do it at home , she can easily go out |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | If you do n't learn , at school they 'd give you detention and lines and punish you for not doing it , if you do n't do it at college it 'll be your mistake and your fault |
| 23 | I mean , Mike was like , you gon na stay down and I was , I have n't seen anybody at college all week , so I think I 'd better go back , actually . |
| 24 | They have n't done it at home . |
| 25 | Paul is hyperactive — we ca n't keep him at school . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't keep them at home forever , you know . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish you would n't ring me at home . |
| 28 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 29 | It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present . |
| 30 | She wo n't see me at night , because sometimes her husband rings up then . |