Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not using bugged in that er , bugging in conversations . |
| 2 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 3 | Graham and Laidlaw remained motionless , not daring to look at each other . |
| 4 | Bob slipped a peppermint into his mouth , not daring to look at either of them until Dyson had found words to speak . |
| 5 | Afterwards they stood up slowly , not wanting to part from such intimacy , but beginning to feel chilly now the warmth of the story was over . |
| 6 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 7 | They had sat there hating one another , quarrelling in bitter voices , not wanting to look at one another . |
| 8 | I 'm not going to go into all the rules here but . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to go into that , but what I 'm saying is we need to recognise this , because if you do recognise it , it makes life that much easier , does that . |
| 10 | okay , well one last thing , I start with the last thing at the beginning , strangely , I mean you 're obviously getting all the technical details and all the expertise from people who know far better than I do , so I 'm not going to go into much technical detail until perhaps a bit later , which might come up if we get a debate going or when I look at your press releases . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 12 | Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you . |
| 13 | cavia I think the Parliament use , that it er , the cost preparing such detailed information must not be disproportionate er to the use it 's going to have , and with that cavia we would welcome further er erm , suggestions as to refinement , and er , I 'm not going to go through this in detail . |
| 14 | Zukor had risked a great deal in his cover-up of evidence in the Taylor scandal , and he was not going to go through another nightmare , so he decided to have Reid put away . |
| 15 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 16 | Perhaps ; but a typical reaction of the electorate at large could be more confidently predicted : " If your candidates ca n't agree among themselves we 're not going to vote for any of them " . |
| 17 | ‘ Everybody 's saying that black comedy is the next big thing , because it 's something strong and different — but unless we do something ourselves , it 's not going to happen at all . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not going to translate for either of you , ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 20 | You 're not going to talk about all of that . |
| 21 | And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side . |
| 22 | Well clearly it is not going to yield to any such analysis , and to believe that it will is to deny the reality of subjective life and to side with the behaviourists . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to behave like some councillors who seem to forget where they came from . |
| 24 | And I 'm not going to listen to any more of your lies . ’ |
| 25 | Yes he 's not going to finish before twelve o'clock at the earliest , choose what . |
| 26 | dwellings could be accommodated , given that the world is not going to stop in two thousand and six . |
| 27 | The working class were not going to fall for this one , and neither were their wives . |
| 28 | And I think once I do that I shall have lost out because Chris has got Park Lane and he 's not going to part with those . |
| 29 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 30 | But if I do that , well , I copy the C four , C six down have C five , C seven and then when I go in and insert the extra rows then er , well that formula 's not going to refer to those new rows that I insert it 's still cell the right of price and the right of sales the wrong sales certainly . |