Example sentences of "not even [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately .
2 He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’
3 This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better .
4 Madonna had not even appeared in court with him .
5 STA SODON The worst feelings which do not even lead to suicide
6 The proposal was not even expressed in Bill form in the White Paper , and the proper interpretation of the legislation once enacted is a matter for the courts .
7 She had left the two of them to duel , not even acting as referee , waiting for them to tire , perhaps even to appeal to her .
8 To begin with , did you know that these black slaves were not even born in America ?
9 He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns .
10 He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it .
11 Sally-Anne had one pain , one memory of which she dared not even think for fear that she would lose all command of herself , one memory which she always pushed away when it tried to attack her .
12 Do not even think of daemons .
13 To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third .
14 And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts .
15 ‘ Ward , ’ Spatz said coldly , matter-of-factly , not even glancing at Kim as he sat behind his desk .
16 Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth .
17 Zack did not even bother with preambles .
18 This first serial , grandiose as its plot sounds , was a live production , not even telerecorded for posterity due to cost factors .
19 Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine .
20 Vendors are jury-rigging tests , leaning heavily on the old SpecMarks of the Unix workstation crowd though they 're not even ported to NT .
21 Not even kissed by self-contempt .
22 The Headmaster is disappointed that Geoffrey only recieved a standard reply from the Prime Minister 's office — not even signed by John Major .
23 I have not even confided in Henry , and he was a student with me at Ingoldstadt , when I began my experiments !
24 It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior .
25 In our marginal universe , we pursued offences which were then not even classified as crimes in the Home Office Standard list , and were pitched into a new philosophical world structured by a number of alternative social constructs .
26 In NME , which usually covered the band 's activities in extreme detail , Charman was not even mentioned by name in the tiny news item informing readers of the band 's new drummer .
27 Roland Holder , the current Barbados captain , who fared better than Jimmy Adams in the preceding England ‘ A ’ tour , was not even mentioned in dispatches .
28 The difference is often not even mentioned in textbooks , with the result that the learner may be ignorant about it and keeps sounding foreign .
29 Not even relieved by sweating .
30 And the only way round that situation , that may not even amount to crime when they 're put in fear , it may amount to yobbos on the pavement , or people er , cycling on the pavement or just being their usual threatening loutish selves .
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