Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 2 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 3 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 4 | They might not make 'em on a Sunday |
| 5 | It seems better not to include it as a criterion of value , once it is clearly distinguished from probability . |
| 6 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 7 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 8 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 9 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 11 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 12 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 13 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 14 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 15 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 16 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 17 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 18 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 19 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 20 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 21 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 22 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 23 | If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens . |
| 24 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 26 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 27 | However , the optical properties of a simple calcite lens in contact with water are such that it transmits light in a diffused way and can not bring it to a sharply focused point . |
| 28 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 29 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 30 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |