Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [not/n't] " 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 But I have enough honour not to tell that lie .
3 But perhaps better not . ’
4 Much better not . ’
5 There is no point in having a system which keeps on playing up ; much better not to have one at all .
6 She might suspect the exact position ; with her knowledge , she probably did , but much better not to say .
7 Viola fixed him with her most commanding stare : ‘ Much better not to mention that , ’ she said .
8 Make colour 1 any shade you like , but remember that this will be the colour of the design screen you will be working on , so try not to make the colour too violent a shade , as this can be tiring to the eyes .
9 So try not to be too rigid or too carried away ; a happy balance will help the general feel and atmosphere of the room in the end .
10 When you look inside try not to be put off by the decor — if it 's hideous , you can always redecorate .
11 Tap the keys as indicated by the boxes rather than typing the letters : eg do not type the letters or the plus sign in Alt+U
12 At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century .
13 There is , I have found , some gentle entertainment to be had in discussion with publishers ' representatives , observing the wide-eyed eagerness with which they greet potentially saleable ideas , and their clenched , wary , glazed-eyes response to proposals they feel negative about , or perhaps do not understand .
14 This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling .
15 These were very disturbed patients who perhaps do not fit into the group under discussion here .
16 And I think a lot of people outside the area , perhaps do not accept it .
17 Of particular interest to Society members even those far afield who perhaps do not know B.C. very well , if at all , is the way it illustrates the influence the Railway had on the community at that time .
18 You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs .
19 People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others .
20 And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre .
21 They have seen the prosperity of the west but perhaps do n't realise how long it has taken to get there , and the imperfections likely .
22 well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything .
23 They perhaps do n't eat much .
24 But perhaps we do n't really know enough and we do n't know where to go for information , I mean I do n't know er I , I I 'm not an expert but there are experts here , how would you assess the services available to people who feel they do need help , or for people who perhaps do n't know they need help ?
25 Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings .
26 Y drivers , we know they have their own code , and er what we say is , although we perhaps do n't agree with it ourselves , you do it .
27 But if they wo n't talk — or perhaps do n't even know precisely what goes on — we 've shown our hand , and got no tricks .
28 Councillor could I just perhaps request that you perhaps do n't make it quite so easy for any future break-ins .
29 Then your then your feelings perhaps do n't matter in the overall picture of the education , but bearing in , looking at the teachers in our school , we , we really do n't have a weak teacher except perhaps Mr , who 's obviously not been well these last three years , erm
30 Well yeah but the only point is Susan she perhaps do n't like the smell of orange but then she might go in my room and pee in there if she did n't have nowhere else to go .
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