Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not think quite what to say and murmured something unintelligible . |
| 2 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 3 | Before her marriage Anna had been taken up as one of the handful of pet Americans and now , although they did not know exactly what had happened , everybody in London sided with her . |
| 4 | A colleague said : ‘ We do not know exactly what happened . |
| 5 | We do not know yet what causes a cell to become cancerous but scientists believe that most causes are linked with our environments and how we live . |
| 6 | He had known nothing of her plans , he did not know now what to expect , why this confining door should ever have been opened now , at this end of the day , after all permitted visits were over . |
| 7 | He did not know quite what to do about this . |
| 8 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 9 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 10 | The judge was about to pass sentence , but broke into the proceedings and stood up saying : ‘ One does not know quite what to say in a case like this — the King is dead . ’ |
| 11 | It was my first attempt at this and I did not know quite what to expect . |
| 12 | If this is not happening then I suspect fuel starvation . |
| 13 | Yeah probably so yeah , and at this time of year they 're fetching so ridiculous in low money anyway , probably better off in the summer when the lads want to go out , out and about , well they 're not bothered now nobody wants to go anywhere do they ? |
| 14 | It 's not commissioned so it means that you add this to ten . . |
| 15 | Because the courts have held that appropriation does not occur instantaneously they have been able to expand and contract the term to catch those who are " manifestly guilty " . |
| 16 | I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ? |
| 17 | I not going anywhere I said . |
| 18 | I was thinking of going to Austria about the end of September October but , if Alexander 's not going abroad I do n't know , I shall have to change me mind probably , I 'll have to have a word with Sue . |
| 19 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |
| 20 | The horse does not remember logically what happened in a certain situation , but it remembers the associated emotion . |
| 21 | I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 . |
| 22 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 23 | As I do not sleep well I find I am very tired in the afternoon . |
| 24 | Each fence should be studied , but not over-analysed otherwise they end up being impossible to jump ! |
| 25 | Whenever the algorithm can not decide unambiguously which line to follow ( for example , at the intersection of two roads , or at a railway junction or a river confluence ) then the operator is asked to resolve the ambiguity by making a choice . |
| 26 | Bu but basically we are , we are now going for land reform and if the , if th th the momentum from this is coming from the spontaneous actions of the peasants themselves , and if it 's not coming then we 've got ta give them the guidance to move in that direction . |
| 27 | She makes a cup of tea which Ma stares at , Ma is very white but not crying so I suppose that is something . |
| 28 | Not stopping now I have n't got no money anyway sorry I have n't got any money for the tape oh dear |
| 29 | I was shocked and stunned , not knowing quite what had happened . |
| 30 | ‘ I never … ’ she floundered , not knowing quite what to say . |