Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 2 | Carrie said , ‘ I 'll not stay where I 'm not wanted so you need n't think it ! ’ mimicking Hepzibah in a determined mood , and Albert laughed briefly . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've lied to me ? ’ she enquired , not seeing how she could be offended when she , either outright or by implication , had told some whoppers . |
| 4 | The trust that had made their intimacy possible did not exist outside it . |
| 5 | All eyes are upon her , apparently , when they are not cooing over her daughter . |
| 6 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 7 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 8 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 9 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 10 | I could not think quite what to say and murmured something unintelligible . |
| 11 | That 's not unusual , because I quite often find that one partner 's not working and therefore they 're not using up their tax allowance so at retirement or before , I can move money into their name , and there are good reasons for doing that . |
| 12 | Also , horses will not eat around their own manure unless they are actually starving . |
| 13 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 14 | I was confused , not realising why you could n't speak to me to tell me what was wrong . |
| 15 | If an authority has decided to do an act which is allegedly illegal but has not yet done it then , of course , the applicant will want to challenge the decision to act and to obtain an order instructing the authority not to carry out its decision . |
| 16 | They would say , not without truth , ‘ Britain claims to be head of the Empire , but can not make up her own mind . ’ |
| 17 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 18 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 19 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 20 | They feel that they should know what they want in a room from the very beginning , and feel incompetent if they can not make up their minds right away . |
| 21 | They could not make up their minds whether they would like to live there . |
| 22 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 23 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 24 | The commission is stopping it because the British Government will not make up its mind on whether it 's gon na back the money . |
| 25 | Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership . |
| 26 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 27 | He could not make up his mind about Swayne . |
| 28 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 29 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |