Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can not stay the distance and his breathing is now difficult . ’ |
| 2 | You bet him sixpence he could not eat a maggot and he promptly swallowed a live one and grabbed your tanner . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend 's suggestion is tempting , but I have not heard the record and I am not sure whether it ought to be released . |
| 4 | and he goes no , he goes no , I 'm not touching the bear I 'm not touching the bear and he goes , and he goes |
| 5 | If we flew a perfect mission every trip then there would be no need to train , but then in a perfect world we would not need an Army and I would be out of a job . |
| 6 | I do not doubt the figures and I welcome the fact that , on average , there has been a 33 per cent . |
| 7 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 8 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 9 | McGhee said : ‘ Monaco have not made an offer and we have no intention of selling James . |
| 10 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 11 | Mr Litmus and Matron were the only two not to visit the Bookman and they refused to have anything to do with the Headmaster 's plans . |
| 12 | But she 's not had the diarrhoea and I have . |
| 13 | But I said I would not become a cabbage and I did survive it . ’ |
| 14 | But I said I would not become a cabbage and I did survive it . ’ |
| 15 | Many of those applicants do not understand the system and they are misled about their applications . |
| 16 | Dave did not like the past and she was not going to risk losing any part of the present . |
| 17 | It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across . |
| 18 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 19 | But where the defect or fault should have been detected during normal maintenance , this would not constitute a defence and there would probably be an offence under the appropriate Construction and Use Regulations . |
| 20 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a terrible self-consciousness at being a new student in a hall of residence , hearing the clattering dinner plates , going into the dining room and not knowing anybody , then suddenly realising ( as happens to the heroine , Laura , in the novel ) that one 's not wearing a gown and everyone else is . |
| 22 | Since , the " Commando " had a clear warning that the contents should not be used after a certain time , this was deemed to put the plaintiff on notice not to use the herbicide and he could not complain that his own misunderstanding of the consequences of ignoring the warning had rendered the herbicide unfit for the purpose which it was supplied . |
| 23 | ‘ I am sure putting up lights would not cost a lot and it would give us peace of mind . ’ |
| 24 | Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it . |
| 25 | I 've had sex with girls and not worn a condom and I wo n't do it again . |
| 26 | I can not face a quarrel and I can see nothing to quarrel about . |
| 27 | It was the kind of rabbit warren in which you could not swing a cat and there were thousands of them in the city . |
| 28 | IF your house does not have a study and you ca n't afford to move , the answer could lie in the soil . |
| 29 | we do not have a dog and our cat died last week , |
| 30 | After all the expected taunts from me that he would not have the nerve and my mum telling him he was crazy , we decided to go along and watch . |