Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nintendo exerts strict control over the market by not allowing anyone else to put games on its machine ( which Atari Games claims violates US anti-trust laws ) and by its powerful marketing . |
| 2 | This is something I really believe , but I 'm not forcing anyone else to believe it too . |
| 3 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 4 | Brancazio suggests that sensors in the inner ear may be providing the information that sends a fielder to the right spot , not doing it well to begin with , but improving with experience . |
| 5 | ‘ Gazzer 's outside , ’ said Marie , not knowing what else to say . |
| 6 | ‘ But it 's me , Blunset , ’ repeated Endill , not knowing what else to say . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I am sorry , ’ Natasha muttered , not knowing what else to say . |
| 8 | We walked back to the rickshaw , saying ‘ well ’ to one another , not knowing what else to say . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , sir , ’ said Doyle , not knowing what else to say . |
| 10 | ‘ Um , ’ he said , not knowing what else to say . |
| 11 | Not knowing what else to say , she looked back towards the stage area in time to see a man with a fiddle emerge from a side-room , and all conversation magically hushed . |
| 12 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 13 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 14 | ‘ Very kind of you to say so , ’ Dyson would reply , not knowing what else to do , but turning his back for shame on Bob and poor old Eddy 's empty desk . |
| 15 | Not knowing what else to do , Theda first found a fresh cap and tucked away her dangerous locks , and then began to lay out her clothes , retrieving her portmanteau from under the bed . |
| 16 | They 're not knuckling her down to concentrate ! |
| 17 | Now in that sense , you 're not telling him how to do his job , or her how to do her job , you 're actually offering some material . |
| 18 | He 's not telling anyone how to run their business . |