Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time , you old gypsy man , Will you not stay Put up your caravan Just for one day ? |
| 2 | The balls of course would not stay put , and followed their pirouetting owners down to the front of the stage , with every intention of dropping into the auditorium . |
| 3 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 4 | I 'm not using bugged in that er , bugging in conversations . |
| 5 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 6 | We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon . |
| 7 | The pianist was Roger Bluff , who seemed able to draw a singing tone from the Festival piano that I have not heard matched for some time . |
| 8 | Those who were not traced differed slightly from those who were : their birth weight was 0.2 pounds ( 91 g ) less , for example . |
| 9 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 10 | I told him , although it was not true , that the local carabinieri had said he would not remain locked up there for long , but I am sure he did not believe me . |
| 11 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 12 | It is also important not to remain tied to the investment made in an old system . |
| 13 | Such users will have NOT ASSSESSED recorded in the ‘ status ’ column of the DC_ASSESSORS view . |
| 14 | The one noise they could not eliminate turned out to be the echo of the Big Bang . |
| 15 | Although mountaineers will not need reminded , the less experienced need to be constantly alerted to the fact that a hot , sunny car park does not necessarily mean a benign hill-walk . |
| 16 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 17 | This was also the reality of the covert world , fuelled by information others did not know relayed by carriers whose real identity was hidden ; a world of secret agents , mystery papers , dreadful imaginings and improbable suspicions . |
| 18 | A male teacher can antagonize you , attract you , provoke you into working harder , and make you aware of aspects of yourself that you did not know existed ; if these have potential , a man can apply a useful sort of pressure to make you develop them . |
| 19 | Disagreements in the church about the point at which one could not compromise left a legacy of schisms in the Nile valley and in North Africa , where the rancour of the Donatist schism persisted until the Muslim invasions swept them away four centuries later . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether the er our er legal speaker will will will bring any er information but er this is the sort of thing that some of the er solicitors bring retir Pre-retirement Course Legal Aspects of Retirement and if er if we you do n't get a handout like this from er mister I 've not met met mister before . |
| 21 | Except by special permission candidates shall not bring written , printed or similar material to their examination places , and any candidate found to be in possession of such unauthorised material shall be reported to the Secretary of the University in the first instance . |
| 22 | He did not appear reassured . |
| 23 | Her stomach did not appear extended . |
| 24 | Although the wound circumference has shortened by this stage to about ⅓ of its initial length , the individual cells at the wound margin do not appear narrowed . |
| 25 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 26 | But Prince Charles did not appear attracted by anyone from that world . |
| 27 | The seller will be in breach of these if all charges and encumbrances ( e.g. liens ) known to him were not made known to the buyer before the contract was made . |
| 28 | Some teachers told the evaluators that they did not feel justified in talking to pupils about the girls and science problem , and gave the impression that they felt to do so would be tantamount to propaganda . |
| 29 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 30 | That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken . |