Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 2 | Do n't you find it so terribly annoying that he 's walking round not paying his poll tax ? |
| 3 | Erm I 'm you know , I 'm quite sure , if you do n't , if you do n't put a lot of work in , then you will finish up not getting through . |
| 4 | Line B , however , disambiguates line A. From line B we learn that the " thin thing " is a " tent for dwelling in " , i.e. a tent from the viewpoint of its occupants , a curtain that is both horizontal and vertical , and spread out not to hide the one who spreads it but to serve as a covering for those under it . |
| 5 | not turning up not turning up |
| 6 | The patient ends up not knowing how to differentiate between what are her own thoughts , and those which have been implanted . |
| 7 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 8 | He walked along not looking at her , but there was a great deal of dark interest in his voice . |
| 9 | I said to him about holding back not giving us our quota I said they can see we 're not doing now . . |
| 10 | But this flashback turns out not to represent a memory , or at least not Pistol 's memory , since King-to-be Henry repudiates him in voice-over , without Hal 's lips moving , though Falstaff reacts as if the words were spoken aloud . |
| 11 | I bet he turns out not to have been quite the hero he makes out . ’ |
| 12 | The surcharge should be coming down not going up . |
| 13 | A lot of us are brought up not to talk too much about ourselves , not to interrupt , not to talk about certain subjects . |
| 14 | Teachers , too , are assumed by some of the proponents of opting out not to care whether the school , with a changed status , has to buy in the traditional services of local advisers , librarians or in-service training . |
| 15 | I think if we go down not having a responsible position to our debts , repaying our debts in the long term , erm , we are going to be restricted on what we can borrow with the capital , because no government is going to , you know , my party or your party , is going to let us go on building debts , and more debts by giving us permission to borrow money and more money and more money . |
| 16 | Hannaford went off not knowing what day it was and is still in hospital receiving treatement for a fractured cheekbone . |
| 17 | oh yeah , and end up not speaking to her for a month |
| 18 | You end up not making choices , your life drifts , things happen to you . |
| 19 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 20 | ‘ Whenever I go back to Boston I end up not doing anything , y'know ? |
| 21 | THE CASE of the diabetic who took insulin for 52 years , only to turn out not to need it at all , is bemusing doctors . |
| 22 | But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model . |
| 23 | Some women patients who are plagued by thrush turn out not to have candidiasis , despite many likely symptoms . |
| 24 | It is not unfair to say that some turn out not to mean quite what everyone thought but nevertheless because they represent government policy — seldom of a direct party kind — they are useful . |
| 25 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
| 26 | It is therefore — by definition — setting out not to use all the NHS facilities to the greatest extent . |
| 27 | They started off knowing they were rocks and they ended up not knowing anything . |
| 28 | No , what I meant was I meant to buy it , I wanted to buy a refill for it , but I ended up not buying the right fibre tip pen for it |
| 29 | But no one would let him buy a drink so I ended up not spending a ha'penny . |
| 30 | The River Police Headquarters Building was not far from Southwark Bridge , and Redpath felt he 'd better call there to put his problem , before getting involved in something that might turn out not to belong to his division at all . |