Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 3 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not overdoing it at school is he ? ’ |
| 7 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | And why , having quoted one or more of these primatial passages , did he not produce them at Rome for confirmation ? |
| 11 | Had Curtly Ambrose , supported by umpire Barker , not ejected him at Bridgetown three winters ago , who knows ? |
| 12 | Not leave them at school at all |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 15 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 16 | Woolridge swore that he would not visit her at Windsor again , unfortunately an oath that he failed to keep . |
| 17 | If the killer wanted Michael dead , why not shoot him at Barak 's house ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | They wo n't want 'em at t'front door . |
| 20 | Will did n't need me at home , because he was busy writing his new play , A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 21 | My gran do n't buy me at Christmas . |
| 22 | She does n't do it at home , she can easily go out |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | They have n't done it at home . |
| 26 | Paul is hyperactive — we ca n't keep him at school . |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't keep them at home forever , you know . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish you would n't ring me at home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |