Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [pron] with " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm not touching you with your |
2 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
3 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
4 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
5 | Thank you , anyway , for not burdening me with your condolences . |
6 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
7 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
8 | That 's when he 's not stuffing himself with breakfast , lunch and dinner and occasionally calling a meeting of his cronies to think of more ways of misusing the club funds and treating the servants as he believes they should be treated . ’ |
9 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
10 | The opposition claimed that the active campaign against them had started after the visit of US Secretary of State James Baker in February [ see pp. 38771-72 ] and that Baker had tacitly sanctioned repression against the democratic and Islamic political opposition in exchange for Tajikistan 's not allying itself with Iran . |
11 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
12 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
13 | You 're not doing anything with your life because as usual you 're facing in the wrong direction and going the wrong way . |
14 | Sun says it is ‘ not doing anything with VLIW , but the fact that Bell says it is , is great . |
15 | No , I 'm not having someone with Republican sympathies near me . |
16 | I often think I miss not having someone with whom to share the joys of Dickie , far more than I miss having someone with whom to share my worries . |
17 | I 'm not swapping anything with her they ended up bringing back my games ! |
18 | You 're surely not connecting her with Dominic 's death ? ’ |
19 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
20 | S maybe if I says to him away you go to your granny 's and then and you 're not taking anything with you . |
21 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
22 | Anyway , if she were so ill it would look funny taking the children — and I 'm not leaving them with her ! ’ |
23 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |