Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she would not lend him any . |
| 2 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 3 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 4 | I though oh bugger it I 'm not bringing it any more it 's getting too big . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 6 | ‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way . |
| 7 | Yorkshire have always attracted some of their most fervent support from the North-East and they are anxious not to see it all transferred to Durham . |
| 8 | Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all . |
| 9 | But it did not make him more in charity with Chips Salter . |
| 10 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 11 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 12 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 13 | To understand the function of bird-song does not make it any less enchanting . |
| 14 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 15 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 16 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 17 | But this does not make it any less true . |
| 18 | This realization does not make it any easier to accept that our own mercurial organ is the right size and shape for our body . |
| 19 | Offensive lack of cooperation may make the task of the constable more unpleasant , but it does not make it any more difficult than would a civilised refusal to help . |
| 20 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 21 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 22 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 23 | He saw no reason not to enjoy them all and he was quite generous enough to share his enjoyment with others by providing , once a year , a venue for the Show . |
| 24 | He did not trust his comrade not to kill them all in a fireball . |
| 25 | He had not checked them all personally . |
| 26 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
| 27 | We have not heard it all before , unless we have read , as few of us have , Harriet Zinnes 's compendium Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts , which all these essayists draw on very heavily . |
| 28 | She seemed to be almost floating and Maggie was astounded that the sharp stones had not given her enough pain to waken her . |
| 29 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |