Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm , in we were not sitting here at the end of our , how many years is it now , thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 32 | On November 28 Hatta resigned from the office of Vice-president , deploring the drift towards chaos : ‘ All our rebellions and our splits , our political anarchy and adventurism , and all the steps taken in the economic field which have created chaos , are the result of the fact that our national Revolution was not dammed up at the appropriate time . ’ |
| 33 | A stroke does not come suddenly at the age of 75 or 80 and finish life . |
| 34 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 35 | Money is another factor diverting doctors from a career in research , although it was not discussed much at the conference . |
| 36 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 37 | We were not playing well at the start and many of my players were tired after Great Britain 's tour in the summer . |
| 38 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 39 | So I 'm not queuing up at the bakers . |
| 40 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 41 | ‘ It is to Foinavon 's eternal credit that he did not refuse either at the melee when he had every excuse to or when he was out on his own especially when he was tiring , ’ Buckingham said . |
| 42 | Children who have a good general understanding of sound-symbol relationship , even if they do not spell well at the moment , are , as Margaret Peters says , " well on their way " to becoming good spellers . |
| 43 | Baseline , FEV 1 , heart rate , plasma potassium concentration , QTc interval , tremor amplitude , and creatine kinase concentration ( including myocardial isoenzyme ) did not differ significantly at the four visits ( table I ) . |
| 44 | But , says his co-worker Dr David Morgan , if Allison thought that this was due to the production of free-oxygen radicals , ‘ He certainly did not say so at the time . ’ |
| 45 | He did not turn in at the door of number thirty-seven , however . |
| 46 | Indeed , musicians argue amongst themselves as to preferred gauges in any one set , so the blame does not lie entirely at the manufacturers ' door . |
| 47 | Another point for them to remember is not to speak directly at the microphone but to aim instead just over the top of it ; this is to reduce the pick-up of breath noises and the distortion of plosive consonants . |
| 48 | ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season . |
| 49 | I understand that the signalling and axle counter system , which is used to detect the location of trains in the tunnel , was not working normally at the time . |