Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.

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1 This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine .
2 Or not getting it at all . ’
3 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
4 Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all .
5 And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all .
6 Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something .
7 At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers .
8 At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers .
9 You must deploy Mr Bargepole equipped with a pair of electrodes and a can of Aqua Regia in the MD 's office of United Newspapers and not let him at it until he has secured your reprieve .
10 The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage .
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