Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't really go along with these performance figures — not given our last intelligence reports on the MiG projects into the 80's . ’ |
| 4 | Premier Brands of Liverpool for the cash to hire the cab ; Frank Brown and the pupils of Musselburgh Grammar School for their hard work and donations ; staff and pupils at Prenton High School , Moreton near Liverpool for their donations ; Sean 's wife Angie for not producing their second child until Sean arrived home ; Susan , my long suffering wife , who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement . |
| 5 | McHale hinted that he may make as many as four changes for the trip , but was not revealing anything last night . |
| 6 | I did not catch his last words ; perhaps he said , ‘ … of others ’ . |
| 7 | Emma still did not know her first name . |
| 8 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 9 | Did we not brief it last month ? |
| 10 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 11 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |
| 12 | Ivan Lendl will not achieve his last great ambition — to be Wimbledon Singles Champion . |
| 13 | She did not repeat her last statement but she said , ‘ Go … go away , please . |
| 14 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 15 | He does not give his last name . |
| 16 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 17 | And you 'll not see it next |
| 18 | We can begin to foresee the time when old people will not spend their last years in large wards which lack privacy or any pretence at being homely . ’ |
| 19 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 20 | Think of the actor suffering from stage-fright who can not remember his first line . |
| 21 | I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting . |
| 22 | Then we 'll see can we not set you next in line for chief of Clan Gillian . ’ |
| 23 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 24 | ‘ It suited me not to deny it last night , ’ Ruth blurted and stared beyond him to a young palm swaying gently in the breeze . |
| 25 | What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ? |
| 26 | I 'm not doing it next year , I said that . |
| 27 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 28 | They had been marginally the more dangerous side , but there was nothing then to suggest that Bradford might not complete their third win of the season over Leeds . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not having her next door peering at me all day . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A virgin , ’ he marvelled , not contradicting her last remark . |