Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the choice between that and not having it is easy . |
| 2 | She used to pass my window for many weeks after that and not come in . |
| 3 | ‘ Can you imagine Zeinab talking about a thing like that and not getting emotionally involved ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 've been thinking , why should he ring and ring like that and not come round ? |
| 5 | What I ca n't take is seeing you distressed like this and not knowing why . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't bear it having you here and fighting like this and not having you , really having you . |
| 7 | " It is rude to ask for thirds and not to finish . " |
| 8 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 9 | There is interesting supporting material in a book by the American critic Robert Scholes , Textual Power , published in 1985 and not consulted by Tallis . |
| 10 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 11 | The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 . |
| 12 | For example , a book numbered 510 is in class 5 Pure sciences , division 1 Mathematics and is of a general nature , that is , the book is on mathematics in general and not limited to any one section . |
| 13 | We wish to point out Darlington 's Tory candidate Michael Fallon said £22.4m had been ploughed into housing association grants for the town since 1979 and not housing authority grants as was stated . |
| 14 | Counting to ten and not shouting back at yet another unreasoning and unreasonable parent is difficult . |
| 15 | Although this bridge was destroyed by fire on 813 and not restored , part of another immense feat of engineering remains today in the abandoned canal intended to join the Rhine and Danube . |
| 16 | Coventry , however , claim the queues were caused by late-arriving supporters , and that there is no way Clarkson can have arrived at 2.15 and not have been in the ground by 3.10 . |
| 17 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 18 | Indeed its formulation provided the theological undergirding for having a Council at all and not leaving everything to the pope to decide alone . |
| 19 | So there 's no scope to coast at all and not pick the strongest team . |
| 20 | Starting at 14–1 and not expected to be fully fit after his long lay-off , he won easily . |
| 21 | If you were a man aged 60–64 and not working ( from 1983 ) ; |
| 22 | I did that for 18 months , leaving Safferys at seven and not getting home until midnight . |
| 23 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 24 | on that somebody 's knocked it down by half and not told him . |