Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 2 | not using it for some |
| 3 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 4 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 5 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
| 6 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 7 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
| 8 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 10 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 11 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 12 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 13 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
| 14 | WE READ of ‘ male rape ’ but the law does not recognise it as such . |
| 15 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 16 | Because the characters and the dialogue of this offstage life were created by the original cast , we have not included it in this script . |
| 17 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 18 | We did not discuss it at all . |
| 19 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 20 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 21 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 22 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
| 23 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
| 24 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 25 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 26 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 27 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 28 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 29 | When they participated in the market economy , they were usually confined to menial positions , many of which did not bring them into much contact with men . |
| 30 | ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely . |