Example sentences of "not [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not listening to a word we 're saying , you 've done sponge , that 's good , now what else float ? |
| 2 | It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes . |
| 3 | Tolkien was not writing to a thesis . |
| 4 | Private cars are not permitted to use the access road and indeed can not cross via the pedestrian ferry , but in summer months a minibus takes visitors from the ferry to the lighthouse , a service not operating to a timetable and needing to be confirmed by advance enquiry . |
| 5 | and if you 're not going to a game tomorrow … you can switch Central on at tea time for all the football news … we 're heading off now to Milton Keynes for a story of adventure for our Friday Feature |
| 6 | If there was a doubt then he would be better not going to a grammar school |
| 7 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 8 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 9 | I think it 's a lot more worthwhile doing a science degree because a lot of arts degrees do n't lead anywhere because then you have to find a job … they 're not leading to a career of any sort … |
| 10 | If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this . |
| 11 | All other respects of the development remains unchanged , so not converting to a house , then . |
| 12 | I was not referring to a press report of the Robert George case . |
| 13 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 14 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |