Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 2 | It makes you want to win for them , makes you determined not to let them down . |
| 3 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 4 | When he saw they were addressed to areas where letters have been intercepted and stolen cards used by thieves , he decided not to send them out and got in touch with the Fraud Section . |
| 5 | She might easy 'ave murdered 'im if our dad 'ad n't pulled 'er off . |
| 6 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 7 | Tina had never been married , though her mother had never given up hope , and did not give it up now , that a wedding would one day take place . |
| 8 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 9 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 10 | The contractors did not block them up , and when the reservoir was filled the water from it burst through the old shafts and flooded A's mines . |
| 11 | That was spiteful and unnecessary but she did not score it out . |
| 12 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 13 | Philip , as overlord of Brittany , at once claimed custody of Geoffrey 's two daughters , and threatened to invade Normandy if Henry II did not hand them over . |
| 14 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 15 | ‘ She did not show you up , then ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Darling , they did not follow you about . |
| 17 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 18 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 19 | ‘ Terry did not string us along and was very open . |
| 20 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 21 | Elisabeth heard the words but did not take them in consciously . |
| 22 | But Gran did not take it in . |
| 23 | Stupidly — but I did have a lot of luggage — cheeses , books for John and my hill boots — I did not take it out with me this trip . |
| 24 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
| 25 | Although the Highways Act of 1835 steadily drove pedestrianism off the roads , it did not drive it out of existence . |
| 26 | He felt automatically for the light switch but did not turn it on . |
| 27 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 28 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
| 29 | The other two held their breath , waiting for the inevitable squeak , but the sensitive fingers did not let him down . |
| 30 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |