Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stayed for hours , not worrying , not thinking ; not seeing herself doing things , which was her usual way of planning ahead , chopping herbs , washing salad , seeing her hands arranging things on plates , hearing her voice ask for things in shops . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not stopped me referring patients , ’ said one doctor , ‘ but I do think about where I send them . ’ |
| 3 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 4 | They may have nothing to offer , but that has not stopped them holding press conferences or making public statements . |
| 5 | Yet the photographs proved it had not stopped her pursuing her curiosity to Oxford . |
| 6 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 7 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes — but not to see her lolloping from room to room any more — ‘ . |
| 9 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 10 | You 'll not ketch me complaining about my lot |
| 11 | She said she did not want him staring at her , she wanted a bit of her life to herself ; without having to share it with Randolph Ash . |
| 12 | I do NOT want him going to some — |
| 13 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 14 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 15 | They connected him up , but there was nowhere to hang the bag of saline solution , and they did not want someone blocking the aisle holding it . |
| 16 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 17 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Roman would not want you going there . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you were my daughter , I would not want you soiling your hands with this lot . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it was clear that the wisest Cambridge leaders whom he could consult would not regard his going as betrayal if he felt it right . |
| 22 | ‘ The problem is not keeping you going , McAllister , but getting you to stop . |
| 23 | Although this is so , it does not trouble anyone surveying a piece of land . |
| 24 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 25 | Mr Fordy said : ‘ Our concern is not to catch them going over the bridge but to stop them going over the bridge . ’ |
| 26 | Their initial meeting at dinner in Hall was not quite accidental : the nature of the placement was such that strong scholarship candidates were more likely than not to find themselves sitting together . |
| 27 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 28 | That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development . |
| 29 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 30 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |