Example sentences of "not [v-ing] in [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This means , I am defined by not being my opposite : not a man , not walking in from outside .
2 I was surprised to see Benjamin keep to a swift gallop , not reining in until a good mile separated us from the convent .
3 It 's part of the English culture of being obtuse , not fitting in with Europe and the rest of the world , the NME is an extension of that
4 Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually .
5 " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes .
6 He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is .
7 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
8 They are not going in at the moment but that does n't worry me because he is a smashing lad doing the right things again .
9 I 'm not staying in with you if you 're gon na be in a foul mood mother .
10 ‘ As I expect you are aware , Mr Leland , my room in your Private Wing is booked from this evening , but as I wanted to attend a regimental dinner tonight , with Mr Remington-Hart 's consent I 'm not moving in until tomorrow . ’
11 I said could n't care less if it 's triple time I 'm not coming in on a Sunday .
12 I said I see enough of this place all bleeding week I 'm not coming in on a Sunday .
13 And he phoned , and he phoned the pub this afternoon and he says I 'm not coming in to work tonight .
14 Ken 's not coming in till half ten .
15 No you ca n't cos Ken , Ken 's not coming in till half ten .
16 They 're not coming in till boxing night .
17 Christine , I 'm not coming in till nine o'clock , perhaps half past eight , half past eight , I will pick you up as well .
18 He added : ‘ They 're not coming in like Rambo , with guns blazing . ’
19 And they knew that they could expect no reinforcements from Scotland while they could have no certainty that a second force was not closing in behind them from England , since clearly their movements had been known , and their return anticipated .
20 ‘ We 're not giving in to Narouz .
21 A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home .
22 And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it .
23 He was n't going in for the Eddie .
24 He said , cos we find people were n't coming in at nine o'clock , you know
25 At the moment people are n't coming in till 1.30 and that makes it harder for the DJ to get an atmosphere going .
26 The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead .
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