Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
2 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
3 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
4 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
5 | Do not eat anything at least two hours before going to bed . |
6 | At least , if the resources in question were printed ones we would not consider it at all acceptable for teachers to be compiling course bibliographies solely from their own publications . |
7 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
8 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
9 | We did not discuss it at all . |
10 | Floy had said he and Snodgrass would try their best to leave markers on the road as they went , providing that Balor did not catch them at it . |
11 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
12 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
13 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
14 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
15 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
16 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
17 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
18 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
19 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
20 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
21 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
22 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
23 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
24 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
25 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
26 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
27 | ‘ Why not do it at 'ome ? ’ |
28 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
29 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
30 | She would not do it at all . |