Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.

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31 I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like
32 He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically .
33 Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment .
34 After that we did not see him at all .
35 She does not see him at all .
36 I do not see them at all .
37 Clearly , if I 'm to give my loved one a spade for Christmas , the answer is not to wrap it at all .
38 Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all .
39 Some judges make extensive use of shoulder headings ; some do not use them at all .
40 Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited .
41 Lots of young couples do not use contraception on their first time , and many do not use it at all .
42 I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … "
43 But she soon saw he did not remember her at all .
44 My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones .
45 I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything .
46 She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either .
47 At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers .
48 At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers .
49 But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all .
50 She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first .
51 He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all .
52 Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them .
53 During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all .
54 I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all .
55 Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all .
56 This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine .
57 Or not getting it at all . ’
58 We are not getting it at all .
59 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
60 Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all .
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