Example sentences of "not see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 2 | Like most of the nomes who had been born in the Store he hated looking up and not seeing a ceiling . |
| 3 | Isabel walked over to the window and stared out , not seeing a thing . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was also relief at not seeing a flood of overpriced Japanese owned art back on the market , or the sense that the cloud of economic recession might be lifting . |
| 5 | He made detailed admissions and at the end was asked whether not seeing a solicitor had made any difference , He said not , but would like to see a solicitor , and refused to sign the notes of interview until he had done so . |
| 6 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 7 | For instance , it is difficult not to see a connection between the prejudiced views of heads and teachers involved in ESN-M referral processes and the overrepresentation of Afro-Caribbean children in special schools ( Tomlinson , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
| 9 | Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either . |
| 10 | Now I was impressed : I not seen a ski hill like this before . |
| 11 | THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it . |
| 12 | She added she had not seen a pewter mug with Ivy 's name on it in its usual place , but could not confirm it had been stolen until the house was straightened out . |
| 13 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 14 | AEA has not seen a copy and does not expect to do so . |
| 15 | Those who were quite recently converted began to take responsibility in different areas in which they had not seen a need prior to our departure . |
| 16 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 17 | No , he had not seen a body , still less a woman 's body . |
| 18 | The experiments at CERN have not seen a W per se . |
| 19 | I 've not seen a lot of it actually , so far . |
| 20 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |
| 21 | It seems remarkable now , when Glen Shiel is so busy , that I had not seen a car nor a human being since leaving Tomdoun eighteen miles earlier … |
| 22 | Now how many people have not seen a list of the |
| 23 | Ten out of 23 ( 43 per cent ) children and adolescents had not seen a dentist since their last review . |
| 24 | These counties had not seen a Forest Eyre for more than thirty years . |
| 25 | Dot had not seen an egg served up like that before . |
| 26 | The world sees a woman , in a way it does not see a man , as old or young , sexual or non-sexual , defining her frequently by nothing other than her biological role : mother , spouse , grandmother , widow . |
| 27 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 28 | It was the Regent Street of Cairo ; except that in Regent Street you would not see a man walking by with a stuffed crocodile on his head or a pig being carried by in a cage . |
| 29 | But simply that I can not see a case |
| 30 | You will not see a goal of more classical quality and execution than this one . |