Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The United Nations has been widely criticised for not reacting fast enough to the crisis in Somalia . |
2 | Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light , she looked down into the courtyard . |
3 | I 've heard of owls drowning in cattle troughs because they dive in to bathe , not realising how deep the water is , and become too wet and heavy to get out . |
4 | ‘ And I 'm not hanging around here waiting to be attacked again . ’ |
5 | It 's not raining out there , is it raining ? |
6 | Yes , ye yes I 'm I 'm not preaching anywhere tomorrow so |
7 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |
8 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
9 | They are not building up vertically , they are in a constant ( albeit commonly intermittent ) state of change . |
10 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
11 | But they 're not cooking very well . |
12 | But they 're not cooking very well . |
13 | The Germans , who are so widely attacked for not coughing up more for a war on which they were n't consulted , are the only Western country making real sacrifices , not only to integrate East Germany , which is costing them 150 billion Dm this year , but also to help Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and even the Soviet Union . |
14 | She 's er having trouble walking now , she 's not walking very well . |
15 | Yes , well , yeah , but he 's a , he 's not walking very well is he ? |
16 | Yeah that means coming back over here do n't it , I 'm not driving around like with my fucking hi fi in the back |
17 | ‘ So shall we get married tomorrow , Frank ? ’ she asked , not understanding how seriously she had offended him . |
18 | I 'm not explaining very well . ’ |
19 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
20 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
21 | You , when you rang the other night you , you did sound like Jackie , I 'm sure you were Jackie on the phone , and with her not living here very long |
22 | ‘ Well , child , ’ she said to Artemis who was standing by her side dropping pebbles into the still water , ‘ I must say it 's going to seem a little odd not living here any more . ’ |
23 | No she 's not living out there , she 's got a visa , she 's been out there two years , I du n no how long she 's gon na stay there , cos if you want too live out . |
24 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
25 | It 's not looking quite so easy now , is it ? |
26 | He said : ‘ There are so many tournaments to go before the Ryder Cup , and quite honestly I 'm not looking that far forward . |
27 | We are not looking any further yet . ’ |
28 | However Meyer is not looking any further ahead than this weekend . |
29 | If the less successful variants were not multiplying quickly enough an element of competition would also mean that poor replicators will be less efficient at acquiring the means of survival to keep the new species going . |
30 | I must plead guilty to not listening very intently to everything Dana says . ’ |