Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cathy Henderson better not hear him on like that , ’ Natasha said . |
| 2 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 3 | ‘ I am , ’ he said almost meekly , ‘ but I 'd just as soon not eat you out of home , when I 've brought nothing in . |
| 4 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 5 | Why not give herself over to the silliness of it , instead of feeling distress ? |
| 6 | Why not pass them on to a hospital or children 's home where they will be treasured . |
| 7 | Why not talk it over with your family and think about it for a week or two ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why not put it back in the bag and say nothing ? |
| 9 | Why not tear them up like everyone else and contribute to the litter found on every bookie 's floor ? |
| 10 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 11 | If so , then why not take it along to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum next Tuesday and let it be admired . |
| 12 | The square brackets in ( 62 ) merely mark that the whole is to be taken as a complex entity , which is given anyway by our assumption that an E extended remains an E ; if the brackets are not needed in ( 61 ) why are they present in ( 62 ) ; alternatively , why not write them in in both cases ? |
| 13 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 14 | I 'm definitely not putting it back on today , but I will put it back on . |