Example sentences of "not there " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are obviously not there when someone is being tortured or killed . |
| 2 | For the hard-line republican position , there is even a duality : protestant loyalists are taken as foreigners with an alien culture , and as either a pariah group — the mere instrument of British imperialism — or simply not there . |
| 3 | It is and is not there . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , when she 's not there Margot calls Miss Chalder their deceptionist . ’ |
| 5 | Never train with heavily padded mitts or you will come to rely upon the extra cushioning effect which is not there with the competition version . |
| 6 | Big Angus stared at him as though he was not there . |
| 7 | He was not there , at X 's funeral . |
| 8 | Perhaps the will is not there . |
| 9 | Her paws kept reaching for the ground , but it was not there . |
| 10 | No speeches have yet been greeted with ecstatic cries of ‘ author , author ’ — probably because Denis Healey is not there — but the clash of rival socialist philosophies is no less cacaphonous . |
| 11 | It is a pity some of the professionals were not there learning alongside them : back on the South Bank a full-scale festival of Canadian music is running all week , but its profile has barely risen to the Plimsoll line . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'm not there , I will not worry . |
| 13 | Certainly not there in Brigade H.Q |
| 14 | I have a strong feeling that she is not there ; there is no smoke from the chimney . |
| 15 | The most surprising influence on press ratings is , however , the one that is not there . |
| 16 | He was not there only by courtesy . |
| 17 | But when he did they showed no interest at all , they just said the officer concerned was not there . |
| 18 | Wexford Said quickly , ‘ No , not there , sweetheart . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't want to stay there and I did n't want to go to Combe Court , cos I hate it and it smells and the Captain slobbers in his food and Christmas is horrible with no good prezzies and Annie not there . |
| 20 | She turned to speak to him , but he was not there . |
| 21 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 22 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 23 | However , that does have its positive side — it gives my staff the opportunity to go to meetings and take responsibility when I 'm not there , so it can be used in quite a developmental way . |
| 24 | I am almost glad I was not there , lest I should have spoiled your tranquillity . |
| 25 | If she looks round one day for someone to borrow a fiver off she might , just might , notice I 'm not there . ’ |
| 26 | He was much jollier when Mrs Hollins was not there . |
| 27 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 28 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 29 | Not there . |
| 30 | What he really meant was ‘ I 've looked you up in Who 's Who and you 're not there . |