Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] and do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are almost all rich old men , since most are appointed when in their fifties and do n't retire until they reach seventy-five : Lord Leverhulme was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1949 and served for forty years . |
| 2 | Textbooks have a register of their own and do not provide a suitable model for imitating in your essay-writing . |
| 3 | But if artists and art critics go on nursing their grudge against everything Soviet and do not combine their efforts in order to organise a museum of Soviet culture , which would highlight the Soviet variant of Socialism , this artistic phenomenon will inevitably disappear like the notorious armoured car . |
| 4 | In that case we firmly say make it simple and do n't aim for the moon at first try . |
| 5 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |