Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 2 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 3 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 4 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 5 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 6 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 7 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 8 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 9 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 10 | compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week . |
| 11 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 12 | But I 'll not bore you with second-hand accounts of the way he lives . |
| 13 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 14 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
| 15 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 16 | Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice . |
| 17 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 18 | Mention the most important points about the questionnaire you would use , but do not show it in full . |
| 19 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 20 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 21 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 22 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 23 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 24 | not paying it till black one comes |
| 25 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 26 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 27 | Hollywood studio chiefs do not see her as prime material to star as tough-talking Det Chief Insp Jane Tennison . |
| 28 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 29 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 30 | She had aged in four years , lost whatever attraction she had ever had , and it made her miserable to realise this son would not remember her without grey hair . |