Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't have everything by any means ; and as I have already said , I bitterly regret not having our Salome . |
| 2 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 3 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 4 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 5 | I remember feeling a good deal embarrassed , which he imperturbably pretended not to notice , thereby perhaps further teaching me a lesson in Eliot-etiquette , though he was the last person deliberately to make anyone feel uneasy . |
| 6 | Whatever floor that Ann 's been on has n't done something like put some money in so that they can take em somewhere else something like over in France or something like that . |
| 7 | He refused outright the advice of his ‘ betters ’ , either by alienating them in a flash of rage or by stubbornly preferring not to go along with them ; rather like Melville 's eponymous character Bartleby . |
| 8 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 9 | I think for a lot of people , yes , it does , and though the pile of bricks obviously comes under Art with a capital A , crafts perhaps has not suffered quite as much , but I think there is the feeling amongst people that if they get a pot which is , shall we say non-function and wo n't pour , then is it art or craft ? |
| 10 | Pyramid , which currently offers some MIPS-based Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG boxes lower down its line , apparently has n't decided whether it will actually offer its new R4000 architecture as one of its own products yet . |
| 11 | But I have enough honour not to tell that lie . |
| 12 | But this man here is obviously going to say he 's seen no cruelty , he h obviously has n't seen the circus madness video that w was released by I A W A and Animals Defenders this year , where there is an absolutely horrendous scene of a llama being beaten around the head and chest . |
| 13 | But it obviously has n't worked . |
| 14 | Tape three obviously has n't got anything in it . |
| 15 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 16 | He obviously has not learned anything from any of them . |
| 17 | He obviously has not read the report — |
| 18 | She knows you 'll be going to see her anyway , so has n't bothered to reply . |
| 19 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 21 | Viola fixed him with her most commanding stare : ‘ Much better not to mention that , ’ she said . |
| 22 | She might suspect the exact position ; with her knowledge , she probably did , but much better not to say . |
| 23 | There is no point in having a system which keeps on playing up ; much better not to have one at all . |
| 24 | And on April 29th France suddenly decided not to lift its border controls , despite promises that it would do so on July 1st under the Schengen agreement that aims to abolish passport controls for citizens of nine of the 12 members states . |
| 25 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 26 | It was sensibly decided not to publish the draft White Paper they prepared . |
| 27 | The circumstances under which they did so do not appear from the report of the case . |
| 28 | You know it and so do I. So do n't waste your breath ! |
| 29 | If you would like to share a bit of my life with me , then give me a bit of yours I will reply so do n't make me cry , get me high , and reply to SKY . |
| 30 | The Madonna had apparently decided not to protect Fontanellato either . |