Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This section of the policy does not apply if the Policyholder 's wife/husband does not normally live at the same address as the Policyholder e.g. if Policyholder and wife are separated . |
| 2 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll spook at anything , ’ says his rider John Whitaker , ‘ and the trouble is he does n't just look at the thing , he 'll jump six feet in the air and then do the splits when he comes down again . |
| 4 | He does n't just look at the mark . |
| 5 | He does n't even stop at the end of the stanza . |
| 6 | And er the sun does n't always travel at the same speed it goes fast and slow so we can also measure the the sun . |