Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not stay awhile and spend some time exploring the delights of this fascinating county . |
| 2 | But he could not stay here and wait to be captured . |
| 3 | These large spaces did not rush past but seemed endless because endlessly repeated . |
| 4 | It 's one of m it 's one of my me memories I 've erm hidden , well not hidden away but tucked away to look at in |
| 5 | It was considered by Nether Wyresdale Parish Council at their recent meeting but they decided not to go ahead and place an order because the prices were far too expensive . |
| 6 | Mr Hale would not comment directly but said in a statement read by his solicitor : ‘ I am pleased it is all over . |
| 7 | You can not vomit here and upset our host . |
| 8 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 9 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 10 | However , the coach-driver case was an example of a case not reported directly but taken up in Paul Foot 's column , after the relatives of the victims had made a protest to him about the sentences and the lack of publicity of the case . |
| 11 | But if the monster parents do not act monstrously and succeed in containing the passion , the children are reassured . |
| 12 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 13 | I wondered , if Jean-Claude were there , why the child had not said so and gone to fetch him for me ? |
| 14 | That means keeping one 's ears and eyes open , it means not looking away but acting as a witness . |
| 15 | I 'm not looking ahead or making any wild plans for the future . ’ |
| 16 | The Labour party is telling those investors that they are not welcome here and encouraging them to go elsewhere . |
| 17 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 18 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |
| 19 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 21 | Why not do likewise and build up your own record of your progress within the organisation ? |
| 22 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 23 | He did not do so but remained on the southern taxiway , embarked his passengers with the engine running and then executed a wide left turn through 180° to face west back down the taxiway . |
| 24 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 25 | This was the reason for the comments in Evans , but there was nothing said in Evans against making a second order on a later occasion which would take the total above 240 hours when added to the original order , but would not do so when added to the hours yet to be worked under it . |
| 26 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 27 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 28 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 29 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 30 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |