Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 2 | I could not remember ever seeing her so indecisive . |
| 3 | And things that shut out light : small boxrooms , closed doors ; ‘ when I snuffed out my bedside candle ’ ; a local history of appalling sandstorms ; unfriendly adults of grim , dour mien , with tight acerbic mouths , the ‘ grey granite ’ stare of a harsh grandmother : he says , ‘ I can not remember ever hearing her use my Christian name in the vocative . ’ |
| 4 | Schools may , and often do , challenge society , but they can not avoid also reflecting it in the same way as revolutionaries normally rebel only against some of the characteristics of a society — others they have internalized too deeply . |
| 5 | Once again his arm , brown and corded , swept silencingly towards the sea and the mountains and the south , as if I might not have properly appreciated it . |
| 6 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
| 7 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
| 8 | And Papa , so sad at her going , could not mean ever to replace her . |
| 9 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 10 | It does not help just to stir it around . ’ |