Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 2 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 3 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 4 | The Kenyan government could not believe the duty-free photographic chain would not somehow leak out into the economy . |
| 5 | Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in . |
| 6 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 7 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 8 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 9 | If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate . |
| 10 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 11 | He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator . |
| 12 | But you can not simply opt out of the issue altogether , no matter who you are : whatever choice you make in this area will have a meaning and give a signal . |
| 13 | I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he |
| 14 | If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage . |
| 15 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 16 | Gazza did not even come out for the second half — he had proved all he needed to prove to any disbelievers still out there . |
| 17 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 18 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 19 | The one thing he could not have borne , the one thing he could not completely shut out from the fevered fringes of his mind , was the thought of the boy 's chill assessment of his father 's achievement and his friend 's . |
| 20 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 21 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 22 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 23 | But she could n't just walk out of the old woman 's life , not without preparing her first . |
| 24 | You ca n't just walk in off the street and say ‘ I want to study a degree in neurophysiology or erm or chemistry even . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We ca n't just drive back through the middle of St Denis , ’ Rogers said . |
| 26 | They do n't just turn up on the night , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Like I say , she do n't usually come back till the morning . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps they did n't ever go up in the loft . |
| 30 | When turning a corner into the next aisle of the shop , do n't tamely walk round behind the trolley and push it in the new direction . |