Example sentences of "not [v-ing] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary art is not pulling in the crowds |
| 2 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 3 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 4 | Catherine and he still spent time together , when he was not working in the fields , but he no longer expressed his fondness for her in words , and he looked angry if she touched or kissed him . |
| 5 | Indeed Michael Blair did it full justice several times last night and who says Josef Locke was n't standing in the wings giving it an envied ear … |