Example sentences of "not [be] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 2 | " This would not be nibbling at the edges . |
| 3 | please would you tell Bill I will not be staying at the same hotel as the owners , and that I will again not be going to the president 's lunch , but that I will be at the races , even if he does n't see me . ’ |
| 4 | I know one thing I 'll not be eating at the buffet . |
| 5 | For one moment , when the right hon. Gentleman first rose to speak , and given that he will not be standing at the next election , I thought that Daniel had come to judgment and that the right hon. Gentleman was going to show some concern for those who seek asylum in this country and who have fled from oppressive regimes that were supported by the Government of which he was happily a Cabinet member for so many years . |
| 6 | It says a child can not be misbehaving at the same time that he is behaving well . |
| 7 | it 's got to pay off , because he wo n't be struggling at the end of this year to be trying to read and write , he will of achieved that |
| 8 | They would n't be knocking at the door tonight , nor any other night so long as she was careful . |
| 9 | As it happens , he would n't be arriving at the best possible moment : William Charles , 14 years his brother 's senior , was finding his own fame and fortune rather on the wane just at that time — he did n't need those supercilious letters from William Jowett in Jamaica to remind him of that . |
| 10 | The island could n't be bursting at the seams , surely ? |