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Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ And a holiday abroad each year to make up for not seeing you much over the past while ! ’
2	Not seeing it right at the minute .
3	Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America .
4	What are you thinking that you would not want anyone else in the town to hear ?
5	DO NOT THROW ANYTHING OUT OF THE WINDOWS — I know a true story about this .
6	A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry .
7	I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath .
8	‘ You 'll not catch me anywhere near the fighting , ma'am .
9	This is so even if she did not buy it direct from the manufacturer ( or , indeed , even if she did not buy it . )
10	Notice that Paul does not tie himself legalistically to the details of Jesus 's words .
11	If county shops put fanzines in , then we spectators can decide whether or not to slog them out of the ground after a couple of deliveries .
12	She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things .
13	This ensures that , if you suddenly pull the throttle stick hard back and drop the model onto the ground very hard , the blades will still be lifting and not pushing themselves down towards the tailboom .
14	This , of course , will not bring us anywhere near the origin of the change .
15	The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction .
16	To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette .
17	Although clearly one can sympathise with Lear one can not expect anything else of the two sisters when they are shown such a bad example of love from their father in his dealings with Cordelia .
18	Just be sure that your opponent does not trap him there with the Orb of Thunder , so keep that Dispel scroll handy .
19	Why not give herself over to the silliness of it , instead of feeling distress ?
20	We are not forcing them out of the NHS ; they will remain in the NHS , and the services will remain free at the point of delivery .
21	The Government is taking the money , and it is not paying it back to the people of Wiltshire .
22	Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned .
23	Johnny was immediately made captain , a position he held for nearly five years , and scored on his debut , but even Johnny 's seven goals from the 12 remaining games could not keep us out of the new basement division .
24	You would not see them here in the forest .
25	But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games !
26	That fact that , since Vendelin Gajdusek had apparently never been interviewed by any journalist , he would not see anything out of the ordinary in her particular interviewing technique .
27	Naisbitt is a shrewd observer and in practice he does not limit himself strictly to the confines of content analysis .
28	love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place .
29	Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office .
30	They were three quarters of the way through the meal when Caspar , who did not miss anything any of the giants said and who had , in fact , long since perfected the art of listening to three different conversations at once , suddenly went rather white and made frantic gestures to Fenella .