Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 2 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 3 | not using it for some |
| 4 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 5 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 6 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 7 | The message is that drivers who do n't break their journey , are in serious danger of not completing it at all . |
| 8 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 9 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 10 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 11 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
| 12 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 13 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 15 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 16 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 17 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 18 | AA Hospital Plus will cover you for private health care of up to £10,000 , £20,000 , or even £40,000 , if the National Health Service can not treat you within six weeks . |
| 19 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 20 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 21 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 22 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 23 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 24 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 25 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 26 | compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week . |
| 27 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 28 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 29 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
| 30 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |