Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In man not seeing them at . |
| 2 | Her not seeing it as what it was . |
| 3 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 4 | ‘ I could not lend it to you . ’ |
| 5 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 6 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 7 | If it 's too dirty I 'm not bringing it in mind . |
| 8 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 9 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 10 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 11 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 12 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 13 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 14 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 15 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 16 | When he said he was moving to Loxford to start another life before it was too late , she thought of abandoning him but she did not think it for long . |
| 17 | The Local Authority will not think it worth while spending money on science teachers or equipment , nor will properly qualified science teachers be willing to accept posts in such schools . |
| 18 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 19 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 20 | Amy 's not using it at the moment , oh goodness me . |
| 21 | not using it for some |
| 22 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 23 | Comparing the proportion of never smokers in the groups using the family and smoking project and those not using it by χ 2 analysis gave a result consistent with the results of the model ( χ 2 a d j =3.7 , df=1 ; p=0.05 ) . |
| 24 | As the use of Carbonflo has not been totally proved yet , I suggest not using it in your diesel . |
| 25 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 26 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 27 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 28 | Once reconciliation has happened , it is important not to see it as the end of the process . |
| 29 | If they think of history , it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching . |
| 30 | ‘ I most certainly did not knock it over myself ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |