Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although , I agree , some of them might not think it very appropriate . |
| 2 | But , evidently , they did not eat it very much . |
| 3 | It may not make you very popular with the queue behind you in the post office , but if it helps you that does not matter . |
| 4 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 5 | It will not make it very easy for them to be called if they seek to interrupt now . |
| 6 | responsibility analysis ’ which broadly takes the existing political and economic structure of society for granted , or which does not relate it very strongly to individual families ' difficulties . |
| 7 | It is true that , for a variety of reasons to do with the structure of wage bargaining in Britain , Keynes did not consider it very likely that money wages would fall , even in the presence of substantial unemployment . |
| 8 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 9 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 10 | Tildy did not like him very much , but the kiss was important to her — and now there was nothing . |
| 11 | Even if I did not like you very much , I should still want you to be manageress of the Maison de Verveine in London . |
| 12 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
| 13 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
| 14 | Grace could not see it very well , because of the rain and the sea . |
| 15 | However , he did not use it very well — not bothering with a control group , for example ( perhaps this was his concession to anti-positivism ) . |
| 16 | He was in shirtsleeves , and the shirt did not fit him very well , the buttoned cuffs hanging down over his wrists , like a schoolboy 's whose clothes had been purchased with a view to his ‘ growing into ’ them . |
| 17 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 18 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 19 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 20 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 21 | This is fundamental , and will be of importance later , in connection with Quantum Theory , but does not take us very far forward . |
| 22 | This definition does not take us very far , however . |
| 23 | Such categories , however , do not take us very deeply into the study of style . |
| 24 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |
| 25 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 26 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 27 | Now if you 're you 're you 're obviously that will not tell us very much about your selling . |
| 28 | In another knot of constituency representatives , someone observed : ‘ Mrs Thatcher did not clap him very hard , did she ? ’ |
| 29 | When the Labour party knew that the parents charter was coming , the hon. Gentleman did not half rush out its paper , and he did not draft it very well . |
| 30 | His starting point will be the congressional leaders of his own party , but their cooperation alone will not get him very far . |