Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too dirty I 'm not bringing it in mind . |
| 2 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 3 | If they think of history , it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching . |
| 4 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 5 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 6 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 7 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 8 | Although the Chicago School made passing reference to Freud 's work in discussing the biotic level , it did not explore it in detail , perhaps because it was not fully available in English during the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 9 | Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect . |
| 10 | This sort of nasal overdrive sound , reminiscent of a blocked sinus ( and about as difficult to get rid of ) , dogs many a small combo amp and I was surprised not to find it in abundance on both VGs . |
| 11 | Whatever you are looking for in a holiday , we defy you not to find it in Majorca . |
| 12 | I think that we shall not beat him in set battle , the Bruce taught us that , surely … |
| 13 | ( You can measure the length of a cricket pitch in terms of the height of a tankard , if you wish , because they are both lengths , but you can not specify it in terms of pints because volume and length are of different dimensions . ) |
| 14 | ‘ Except that I will not detain you in prison or expel you from Scotland , on one condition . |
| 15 | The next thing is to make sure that the sin committed against you is not causing you in turn to sin . |
| 16 | It does not show him in character . |
| 17 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 18 | Women attended funerals in I s did they not do it in Evay ? |
| 19 | Geraldine had not seen him in pyjamas before . |
| 20 | Ken has encouraged me to circulate this , although he has not seen it in detail . |
| 21 | Zenith knew of the existence of Acme 's program but had not seen it in use — no infringement of copyright , the function of the program is idea , not expression . |
| 22 | I trust Cully Chatterton has not appropriated it in order to check out casino share prices . ’ |
| 23 | He did not keep her in suspense . |
| 24 | So let's not keep you in suspense and join Katie prior to her departure from a surprising location for international flight . |
| 25 | And I promise not to embarrass you in front of the paying public by pointing out the mildew on your roses . ’ |
| 26 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 27 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 28 | Their host , the Rev Kenneth MacAulay , great-uncle of Thomas Babington of that name , had sent a letter explaining that he could not meet them in Nairn : his priestly duties detained him in Cawdor — to which Boswell adds a footnote . |
| 29 | You 're not getting me in jail with you — who 'd arrange the escape ? |
| 30 | If they are not doing it in training they ca n't expect to come into the side . |