Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not using bugged in that er , bugging in conversations . |
| 2 | The pianist was Roger Bluff , who seemed able to draw a singing tone from the Festival piano that I have not heard matched for some time . |
| 3 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 4 | I could not feel offended after this , and accepted the wine . |
| 5 | We wo n't be printing names ; this is not going to be a dealer persecution service , nor even a personal arbitration service such as Which ? magazine 's ‘ Personal Service ’ , because we simply can not become involved on that level . |
| 6 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 7 | Although by his own admission , Nicholson had ‘ done all the drugs ’ he did not become addicted to any . |
| 8 | When she opened the door , David said , ‘ I hope you 're not going dressed like that ? ’ |
| 9 | The urban bias of radio was thus increased : it was virtually impossible for people who had not become urbanized to some extent to be appointed as full-time radio broadcasters . |
| 10 | We 're not getting rid of that now . |
| 11 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 12 | It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road . |
| 13 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 14 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 15 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 16 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 17 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 18 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 19 | He should not have lost with such a lead . |
| 20 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 21 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 22 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 23 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 24 | The conditions of the moral economy have been met , okay the landlords have been forced to if one accepted that was the way in which the peasants saw the world they would not have gone beyond that . |
| 25 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 26 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 27 | I stress ‘ of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity ’ because it is the peculiar combinatorial potency of expressions in natural language which , it seems to me , could not have emerged by any evolutionary mechanism unless the users of the system were capable of the sort of second-order intentional states involved in the Gricean mechanism . |
| 28 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 29 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 30 | A system of teacher appraisal , of the sort proposed in a report from a national steering group last week , would not have helped in either of these cases . |