Example sentences of "not [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first we considered moving to Devon , which we had come to know during speaking engagements for Mark Bonham-Carter at Torrington and Jeremy Thorpe at Barnstaple , but not seeing anything to our liking , turned our thoughts to our native Scotland . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not bringing anyone at all and , as to the seat , I 'll pay for mine as soon as I see you . ’ |
| 3 | It could be ‘ neo-Stalinism ’ ( refusing to say Russia was a capitalist country ) ; ‘ Pabloite revisionism ’ ( deciding to join the Labour Party secretly ) ; ‘ tailism ’ ( waiting for trade unions to organize strikes rather than getting on with it yourself ) ; ‘ liquidationism ’ ( dissolving the sect into a larger movement , hoping that its ideas will catch on ) ; ‘ parliamentary cretinism ’ ( advising people to vote Labour ) ; ‘ stageism ’ ( not demanding everything at once ) ; or even ‘ centreism ’ ( expressing a liking for Tony Benn ) . |
| 4 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 5 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 6 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 7 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 8 | It may be that the contravener himself has not received anything under the transaction in question . |
| 9 | Do not eat anything at least two hours before going to bed . |
| 10 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |
| 11 | But do not make one without the advice of a solicitor . |
| 12 | Whether you are on your own or surrounded by family why not make one for your home this Advent ? |
| 13 | She did not make one for Jamie . |
| 14 | They can be fairly noisy in operation , so you may not want one in your kitchen , but they are comparatively efficient : 65% , similar to most gas boilers , and easy to control . |
| 15 | He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched . |
| 16 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 17 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 18 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 19 | You 've not heard nothing about it ? |
| 20 | Now from my observations of these debates I 've not heard anybody on this council saying council debates that there is no role for this local authority or any other local authority there is no role for them in the provision of residential care or any extension of residential care because some of our residential care is getting very , very close to providing a degree of nursing care . |
| 21 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 22 | But I 've not heard anything of him since I last left food and some clothes for him , and that was three days ago . ’ |
| 23 | I had not heard anything about these guys . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not heard anything about this . ’ |
| 25 | Clive wondered why they had not heard anything from downstairs . |
| 26 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 27 | Haines obviously finds the idea of one machine for all , possibly based on Taligent , conceptually attractive , but says he has not heard anything in IBM about a merging . |
| 28 | Order , I am not in , I am not allowing anything outside the scope of the debate Mr Michael Spicer . |
| 29 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 30 | The fact that he does not explain anything about them probably means that they were known to his audience . |