Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had almost certainly not witnessed his father 's effective deposition , but he now looked on while " faithful " bishops reclothed the emperor in his royal robes and rearmed him with his weapons . |
| 2 | Though Premier John Major has said he will not sack his chancellor before the Spring Budget its is very likely he will be forced to dismiss him soon after . |
| 3 | Recognizing that authoritarians did not phrase their bigotry in unqualified statements , Adorno et al . |
| 4 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 5 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 6 | Nigel was paid for his work , but he hated not seeing his piece in print . |
| 7 | ‘ I missed not being able to put the stocking on the end of his bed like I always did , and not seeing his face when he woke up . |
| 8 | As it is , I think every hour that passes increases the risk of your not seeing your daughter again whether you pay the ransom or not , and that by paying you may well be signing her death warrant . |
| 9 | US opposition to the terms of the agreement , which imposed restrictions on the free movement of UN personnel in Iraq and obliged the use of Iraqi rather UN facilities , was reportedly neutralized after the UK and France indicated that they would not lend their support . |
| 10 | Pricing is a key factor ; you will want to recoup your expenses and make a profit , yet not overprice your paintings for the sort of audience you will attract . |
| 11 | He has not forgiven his mother . |
| 12 | I do n't know , ’ replied Tess , who could not swallow her food . |
| 13 | Placing it on the fridge door may encourage mothers not to indulge their child . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we are to define what it is that influences our decisions whether or not to indulge our motivations towards crime we inevitably make suppositions about human needs or requirements , which are in turn predicated on assumptions about what it is that gives us pleasure or pain . |
| 15 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 16 | All the ruthless attempts to force her from this allegiance have not shaken her faith . |
| 17 | It was true that Naylor Massingham had apparently said to Travis 's mother that Travis was a big lad now , but Travis was hurting like the devil inside and was consequently not handling his unhappiness and loneliness in a very ‘ big lad ’ fashion . |
| 18 | He castigated the illustrator of Time Wasted Away for not bringing his work in line with that of Miss [ sic ] Vanessa Bell and , among other things , for depicting the sun as an eight-pointed starfish in the sky . |
| 19 | I am vain enough to want to look good , but not to style my hair and paint my toenails . |
| 20 | The Allies modified their strategy , as readers will see in chapter 11 , while the Germans — satisfied they had repulsed a possible invasion attempt — did not modify their posture defending major ports and paid the price in defeat at Normandy . |
| 21 | Well I think it 's an important issue , we need to sq we need to squeeze every , every pound out that we can if we 're not to if we 're not to affect our service level . |
| 22 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 23 | The gun 's threat had not stopped my advance . |
| 24 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 25 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 26 | We have to live in the present , not make our present in the past . |
| 27 | It 's supposed to save you time , erm , not make your life more difficult . |
| 28 | While chromatic notes more often than not make his harmony directional , they are never used to excess and always relate to the words . |
| 29 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 30 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |