Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 2 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 3 | His travellers appeared on the whole disappointed not to be cooked by cannibals . |
| 4 | No , ’ he confirmed gently when she just stared at him in shock , ‘ you need n't answer , not if you promised not to . |
| 5 | Even today there are many areas of constitutional law regulated not by statute but by the common law as expounded by our judges . |
| 6 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 7 | I referred not to this one but to the principle . |
| 8 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 9 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 10 | She pretended not to notice . |
| 11 | ‘ He pretended not to be interested , I dare say . |
| 12 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 13 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 14 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 15 | She was looking after her father in his old age as she had always said she would , but instead of satisfaction she felt only guilt — guilt at her own impatience when he behaved not as her father but like a disobedient child . |
| 16 | Thus a word processing package may be stored in ROM and accessed not by using a floppy disk but by giving the microcomputer a command , e.g. the BBC-B 's WORDWISE package is accessed by typing in W. and pressing the return key . |
| 17 | The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires . |
| 18 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
| 19 | ‘ I used not to . |
| 20 | I still think I am the more domineering , but that is only because she is so polite + generally does n't put up a fight ! ( or used not to ! ) |
| 21 | The Royal Academy score , then , is that of the original version : copied before ( though only just before ) The Fairy Queen started its first run , and used not for rehearsals — there are no signs of wear and tear — but as a master from which the parts were prepared . |
| 22 | Second , there was feeling , the word used not in the conventional sense , but to describe a much less consciously formulated process of appreciation and subjective valuation . |
| 23 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 24 | Clarissa tried not to be disarmed , tried to fathom why such self-denigration was being paraded so abjectly before someone who only last week had been a figure of insult and derision . |
| 25 | Cameron III was embarrassed by the Smash Hits following and tried not to be a teen idol , whereupon he was celebrated all the more . |
| 26 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 27 | Mourners tried not to cry yesterday , but most failed . |
| 28 | She tried not to . |
| 29 | On the outside of the rampart there was an astonishing collection of white skeletons which he tried not to look at but which rattled unpleasantly as the jackals took to their heels at his approach . |
| 30 | He thought , once again , how large she looked and yet how vulnerable , wearing nothing but her nightdress , kneeling on the floor in front of him so that he could see , although he tried not to , the tops of her ample breasts . |