Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will not be expecting her , they will see her as an intruder . |
| 2 | Ask the children to sit in a circle and explain that the aim of the game is to toss the beanbag ( bomb ) to a child in the circle who may not be expecting it , possibly by looking one way and throwing the other . |
| 3 | But the believer is heir to a kingdom that can not be shaken He who trusts in God looks death out of countenance ; and over him the second death shall have no power … " " |
| 4 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 5 | Well it may not be providing we can actually pull out some still |
| 6 | ‘ They may not be sending them abroad — ‘ That is what they promised when James enlisted . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The people wearing Hard Yakka now might not be wearing it in 1994 , but the product has a wider appeal than a fickle , professionally-trendy minority . ’ |
| 8 | Let it not be said we do n't have any standards in this office . |
| 9 | Bryan assured Sarah that if her marriage to Andrew could not be saved he would act for both of them in any settlement . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to tell you that Craig will not be bothering you any longer , he has found somewhere else to stay . ’ |
| 11 | Having asked that she should not be disturbed she had taken the overdose in her room . |
| 12 | Yesterday Silas had assured her he would not be taking her to town — yet here she was , smartly dressed and ready to accompany them . |
| 13 | But the British Menopause Society is warning that many of them might not be taking it for long enough . |
| 14 | Mrs Knelle would not be meeting me until half past ten that night , after the theatre . |
| 15 | We support the Government 's promotion of recycling coastal land for uses which require a coastal location , but we feel that such developments as supermarkets that do not need coastal locations , should not be given them . |
| 16 | As fractional contracts can not be written it is almost inevitable that the hedge will not be perfect . |
| 17 | If people want to better themselves , they are entitled to enjoy this sort of instruction : it should not be denied them in a civilised society . |
| 18 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 19 | Jack believed that they could not be imagining it . |
| 20 | I most certainly will not be scratching you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Players should not be thinking they might be beaten . |
| 22 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 23 | If the required standards to keep an anemone healthy can not be met it must be better to keep to captive-bred clowns and forgo the anemone . |
| 24 | Each time the boy went home and the wheat free diet could not be sustained he suffered a decline in his growth curve . |
| 25 | ‘ Our actual details for 1956–7 designs are , needless to say , quite different , and you will not be receiving them . |
| 26 | ‘ As I shall not be seeing her again it would be pointless . |
| 27 | In fact , he will not be seeing you again . ’ |
| 28 | Unfortunately , however , Tony Walker will not be joining us until mid July , but I hope branches will be able to get going under their own steam in the meantime . |
| 29 | I should not be pressuring her in this way . |
| 30 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |