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Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But she would not lend him any .
2	But we 're not handling them any better .
3	He 's not bringing me any supper .
4	I though oh bugger it I 'm not bringing it any more it 's getting too big .
5	So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going .
6	‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff .
7	‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way .
8	Yorkshire have always attracted some of their most fervent support from the North-East and they are anxious not to see it all transferred to Durham .
9	Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all .
10	The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations .
11	But it did not make him more in charity with Chips Salter .
12	Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer .
13	Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense .
14	Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression .
15	It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself .
16	To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful .
17	To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting .
18	Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised .
19	But that did not make it any easier to break the news .
20	The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better .
21	But this does not make it any less true .
22	This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body .
23	Offensive lack of cooperation may make the task of the constable more unpleasant , but it does not make it any more difficult than would a civilised refusal to help .
24	It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community .
25	The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions .
26	I thought no way were we going to have half an hour of this and thought why not make our own ?
27	Having curtains made professionally can be costly , so why not make your own ?
28	The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral .
29	The song did not want its own mouth
30	St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her .