Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But even when both parents register a birth , they may not stay together long . |
| 32 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 33 | As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home . |
| 34 | ‘ I can not stay long , dear . |
| 35 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 36 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 37 | I did not stay long . |
| 38 | It may well have been fun while it lasted , but we might guess by now that the Titfords would not stay long in Spa Fields , any more than they had anywhere else . |
| 39 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 40 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 41 | Kirke did not stay long , for on 25th September the Goldsmiths appointed a Mr. Lang , recommended by the Mayor , Aldermen , and Townspeople . |
| 42 | But Pollett too did not stay long , for by April 1630 the townspeople had notified the Goldsmiths that William Plant was now " teaching the children " . |
| 43 | ( She did not stay long ; an uncle of hers turned up and took her to live with him in Manchester . ) |
| 44 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 45 | Wickham did not stay long . |
| 46 | They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise . |
| 47 | Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough . |
| 48 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 49 | That relationship did not stay still . |
| 50 | ‘ No , sergeant , I did not stay there . |
| 51 | No , I really could not stay there any longer . |
| 52 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 53 | Obviously his original motive is patriotism and love of Gondor , but when this leads him to exalt ‘ strength to defend ourselves , strength in a just cause ’ , our modern experience of dictators immediately tells us that matters would not stay there . |
| 54 | Many people living in ‘ inner cities ’ do not stay there because of the ‘ community ’ but because they can not escape . |
| 55 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 56 | I was so angry with them all that I could not stay there a moment longer , and rushed out into the darkness . |
| 57 | ‘ You did not stay there very long . ’ |
| 58 | and not go through you know in a while you 'll go through and not stay there |
| 59 | ‘ He says that the lions will not stay any longer . |
| 60 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |