Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 2 | I have already commented that colours will not show up unless the intensity of the light is sufficiently great . |
| 3 | But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit . |
| 4 | She did not look up when the girls came in , although the billiard table was connected by a cord to a cow-bell , which jangled harshly . |
| 5 | I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window . |
| 6 | Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas . |
| 7 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 8 | The orders were very strict that one could not move off until the oil temperature was above the minimum and on this occasion I was quite determined to make up the time . |
| 9 | Why not join in while the going is good and take the remaining few animals or trees whatever the cost , because you will never reinherit your traditional grounds . |
| 10 | Although the new military rulers eventually decided the tournament should go ahead , somehow the orders did not filter down and a group of soldiers stormed the court , forcing Ashe to take refuge in the dressing room with a machine gun pressing against his neck . |
| 11 | Such an observation as that ‘ election riots were almost as old as the game laws : they too date from the Middle Ages and did not die out until the 1870's ’ does not help to settle the matter . |
| 12 | The jacket allows plenty of all round movement and the hem will not ride up once the drawcord is tightened . |
| 13 | The moral is simple : do not let up until the time-up bell sounds . |
| 14 | Here , because it could be inferred that the defendant knew that the police could not drive off while the van door was still open , he was aware that he was obstructing the police , and intended therefore to do so . |
| 15 | The exchange rate , which in a market situation would fall , can not come down because the whole dedication of Government policy is to keep the exchange rate at an unreasonable level . |
| 16 | Further clashes were averted after Mike Snell , the district council engineer , gave an assurance that the trees would not come down until the issue was resolved in court . |
| 17 | Fig15 If you can not get back and the wind is very light , by carefully balancing the rig on the back of the board you can lie down on the front and paddle back |
| 18 | Why not get in while the going 's good ? |
| 19 | ‘ There are so many gates I could not figure out where the clubhouse was , ’ he said . |
| 20 | That 's not a criticism of the project as such , it 's just that the sort of service that was intended which included the conversion of a building , did not check out that a building was available — there was no building . |
| 21 | Where vendors can not agree on where the problem lies , they will at least inform the customer in writing of the reason . |
| 22 | Julian then found by laying three equal sized tubes end to end , they would exactly fit along a double bar between two uprights and would not roll off because the bars were near and parallel to each other . |
| 23 | Do not fight on if the stitches are in danger of being ruptured . |
| 24 | They would n't hang around if the humans came . |
| 25 | And the writing wo n't dry up after the story of Cormac is told . |
| 26 | Yeah they are like and like they just do n't grow up until the time |
| 27 | Bullets for those that could n't keep up and a fifth of a loaf a day for those that could . |
| 28 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 29 | As history showed , despite the engineering skill deployed and the excellence of the final product , the sums did n't work out and the whole company fell . |
| 30 | Even thirty years later , when she was quite old enough to know it was n't her fault , that a house did n't burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond , she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it . |