Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith asked promptly , sometimes not seeing Rosemary for days , but missing her now she was n't around . |
| 2 | More importantly , he was a little wary of her father and not at all sure that Burkett was not using Sylvia as bait for a cast of his own . |
| 3 | The intimation that Venables did not want Hughes at Tottenham was that it was a misjudgment by him . |
| 4 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 5 | Mosquitoes can not transmit HIV to people ( and the same applies to lice , fleas , ticks and bed bugs ) . |
| 6 | Wheelchair-bound Emery , 69 , of Totton , admitted not keeping Maggie under control . |
| 7 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 8 | Mrs Turpin did not know Bernard of Clairvaux 's observation , that the first step into pride is comparison , and the subsequent steps lead into a self-focused life . |
| 9 | If she was surprised not to find Harry in Celia 's bedroom , she did not say so . |
| 10 | Tony signalled her not to annoy Frank in case he used it as an excuse to follow Terry , but he only seemed amused . |
| 11 | With a guilty start she remembered she had not phoned Glyn since Paris . |
| 12 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 13 | It is noteworthy that Schuman did not contact Britain in advance of his announcement . |
| 14 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 15 | Millwall did not sign Goddard in time to put him straight into their side . |
| 16 | Although Joe had been careful not to criticise Chris to Maureen he felt indignant with him . |
| 17 | That was one of Beatrice 's most tender passages , and it seems impossible that she did not have Modigliani in mind . |
| 18 | This was aggravated when Neil Kinnock , in order not to convert PR at Westminster into an issue involving loyalty to his leadership , even before the Plant Committee has begun its consideration , refused to say which way he leaned . |
| 19 | He said the rebels ' objective was ‘ not to conquer Kabul by force , but to smash the security perimeter ’ established by government forces . |
| 20 | Remarking that he would not have forgiven Boswell had he not brought Johnson to Monboddo , he showed the travellers a stalk of corn , his laetas segetes , his abundant crop , and remarked that Virgil , to judge from his writings , seemed an equally practical and enthusiastic farmer . |
| 21 | But it might not provoke Balliol into action . |
| 22 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 23 | An encounter with a French frigate delayed their final sailing so that they could not reach Sumatra in time . |
| 24 | Ajax was not dragging Cassandra from sanctuary but standing trial before his peers for that impious act ; yet she was still seated on the ground clasping the image fallen from its pedestal . |
| 25 | Yet he stood by his decision not to withdraw Pears from England 's squad . |
| 26 | For his part Dinca , a former First Deputy Prime Minister , claimed that he had not opposed Ceausescu for fear of being dismissed and even executed . |
| 27 | The prospect of the invited crowd of guests arriving at his house in the next half hour does not fill Merton with joy , but , as you quickly establish , this is pretty much par for the course . |
| 28 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 29 | The member states are not deluging CERN with money for the LHC — in fact , its budget will drop slightly next year . |
| 30 | In this sense , Labour 's respect for the constitution and its willingness to collaborate with an increasingly strong State against ‘ extremism ’ of the Left as well as the Right did not save Britain from fascism : it merely helped capital at the expense of the working class . |