Example sentences of "not [verb] 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 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 5 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 6 | He did not answer and she said , ‘ David ? ’ so softly she might have been waking him . |
| 7 | We tried to persuade Tom not to go and I told him to stay well away from the horses . |
| 8 | My master did not demur and I slipped quietly out of the chamber . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lisa had not forgotten and she did not try to deny it . |
| 11 | As for his colleagues , Mr Smith said : ‘ We 're all agreed that we can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . |
| 12 | It quotes John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , in support , and John Smith , the Shadow Chancellor , as saying : ‘ We can not spend what we have not earned and we intend to earn it before we spend it . ’ |
| 13 | Stories appeared that were untrue , newspapers quoted things she had not said and she began to feel panicky . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Now I know that 's not selected and I do n't make any complaint about that erm far from it er I would not complain ever against the chair but I did introduce erm well I do n't and I would n't but I erm introduced the erm first reading of a bill on this matter yesterday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We 're not told and it does n't say on your ballot paper please be sure to remember you 're voting on what you think is right rather than what is in your personal interest , you were just asked to vote . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The music , although still loud , was not blaring and someone had even made sandwiches , which were being passed around along with a cider and vodka mixture . |
| 27 | But he did not stop and it faded back into houses again below him as he pressed on . |
| 28 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 29 | It does not move and it has no food . |
| 30 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |