Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 2 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 3 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |
| 4 | He did not answer and she said , ‘ David ? ’ so softly she might have been waking him . |
| 5 | My master did not demur and I slipped quietly out of the chamber . |
| 6 | The reason that Scotton Parish Council are opposed to a road of the type shown in the key diagram , is that they do not consider and I do not consider that a road in that position , going to the north of Knaresborough , could effectively meet that need to relieve the A fifty nine . |
| 7 | The wine however , did not improve and we ordered a bottle of house red , an ‘ 85 Bordeaux Supérieur which tasted distinctly user-friendly after our step into the unknown . |
| 8 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 9 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 10 | I would never hunt , I will also not demand that anybody else hunts and I do n't think other people should say to me what I should and what I should not do and I think that 's the issue . |
| 11 | ‘ I was able to reassure most of them , but there was one lady who we could just not convince and she cancelled a group booking for 50 . ’ |
| 12 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 13 | The late manifestations involving the nervous and cardiovascular systems seen in syphilis do not occur and there seems to be no risk of passing on the infection to the unborn child . |
| 14 | You either keep in the light where you can see , or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you , because you can not see and you think it 's an enemy . ’ |
| 15 | To add to his misery , the television set in his hotel room did not work and he spent thousands of dollars on transatlantic telephone calls . |
| 16 | But he did not stop and it faded back into houses again below him as he pressed on . |
| 17 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 18 | It does not move and it has no food . |
| 19 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 20 | Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did . |
| 21 | In this compartment , in this carriage , on this train , it does not happen and they move on to check the papers of the woman and her daughter . |
| 22 | Some experimenting may be needed to find a brand whose ink does not fade and which does not skid on the surface of the paper . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the anchor did not hold and they dragged further through the shoal water . |
| 24 | He did not hide and he said that he would do the same again . |
| 25 | You can not pray and you feel unutterably alone and desolate . |
| 26 | In 1700 Gascoyne issued proposals to produce a similar map for Devon but , probably through lack of support , this did not materialize and he returned to London . |
| 27 | ‘ You did not telephone and you did not arrive . |
| 28 | Hurtled The plan was for his main chute to open at 3,000ft but it did not open and he hurtled to conclusion of the association 's investigation was that he had failed to locate the ripcord handle . |
| 29 | The door would not open and she had nowhere to go . |
| 30 | For about half a minute he did not reply and I thought that he either did not understand English or was trying to humiliate me . |