Example sentences of "not [verb] [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously you are not seeing enough of Señor Mitchell . |
| 2 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 3 | That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it . |
| 4 | No , she did not want some of Harry 's handful of flour and dal ! |
| 5 | He wanted it to be an apple charlotte , but I did not want another in fiction after that in Howards End . |
| 6 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 7 | We will not consider this in detail , but should note that for foreign learners a typical situation — regrettably , an almost inevitable one — is that they learn a style of pronunciation which could be described as careful and formal . |
| 8 | We did not object this without evidence of reasons for objection and we 've been in disc discussion with the erm American miners . |
| 9 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 10 | Almost three years after his appointment as chairman and chief executive , Sir Kit McMahon has still not solved any of Midland 's three core problems : a big third-world-debt portfolio , high costs , and low-yielding assets . |
| 11 | The banners gathering there on the banks of the Carron on the other side of the Forth did not include those of Orm or Gamel , the kindred of Siward 's wife , or of Osulf her cousin , whose father Siward had killed , or Copsi or Carl Thorbrandsson or Archil , all powers in York . |
| 12 | In all , at least thirty-five geometric and other simple designs have to be examined in this section , and this does not include those from Newton St. Loe , or other relatable but debased designs , e.g. that of room 22 , Chedworth or the radial arrangements of Lydney ( Wheeler , 1932 , pI . |
| 13 | I do not know much about gods ; but I think that the river |
| 14 | Either Mrs Hnatiuk really did not know much about Hank or she was just being perverse . |
| 15 | We do not know much about Newcomen 's early work . |
| 16 | She does not know much about world politics ; she undertakes her ‘ strange Odyssean intellectual and political adventure into the soul and psyche of this unknown leader ’ in , she says , ‘ a systematic journalistic manner ’ . |
| 17 | I may not know much about anatomy , but I am rug-smart . |
| 18 | It is to enable those who do not know and can not know enough for policy-making to make policy , yet it is to have no policies of its own . ’ |
| 19 | Thus the findings of Newcombe and Ratcliffe do not confirm those of Hécaen and Sauguet . |
| 20 | Peter did not repeat this to Anna . |
| 21 | Yoga may not do much for stamina , but it can be excellent for suppleness and also relatively good for strength . |
| 22 | In short it appears that the selection of candidates under the STV does not do much for party harmony . |
| 23 | Theresa had been so good to her always , she could not do that to Theresa . |
| 24 | But for a time I could not do that to Georg . |
| 25 | They could not do this without troops . |
| 26 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 27 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 28 | I 've not done that for years . |
| 29 | Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy . |
| 30 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |