Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] do not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disliked the ethos of Irish Protestantism and he did not believe in its doctrines . |
| 2 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 3 | When I was in the north-east , there was particular concern among business men whom I met because the north-east in particular has benefited greatly from Japanese investment and it does not want investors to be frightened off . |
| 4 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 5 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 6 | You start to see a pattern developing in your study and you do not want to let yourself down by not studying today . |
| 7 | She drives me in my car and we do not say much . |
| 8 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 9 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 10 | There are a large number of organisations where the converse is true : it is not possible to find much talent and they do not occupy the time and effort of executive searchers . |
| 11 | This provision has a narrow ambit and it does not prevent a supplier attempting to shrink the core of the obligations , rather than excluding the implied terms . |
| 12 | Culture and identity are part of the story of racial sensibility but they do not exhaust that story . |
| 13 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 14 | These ‘ structuralists ’ may lack a common programme but they do not lack a common ancestry . |
| 15 | He waved weakly after the car but he did not speak as Rose shut the door and they turned back into the house . |
| 16 | Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good . |
| 17 | This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia . |
| 18 | ‘ We do hope Mr De Klerk gets his mandate but I do not want to say there will be a review of policy in our dealings with his administration . |
| 19 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 20 | we will provide you with a new schedule for your guidance but you do not have to complete it unless you want to . |
| 21 | If you normally work 4 days a week and lose 1 day , you meet the requirements of the 3 out of 6 rule but you do not meet the requirements of ‘ substantial loss of employment ’ . |
| 22 | A legal system must take steps to control the use of force but it does not have to be totally successful in order to remain a legal system . |
| 23 | It was more like a betrothal than a marriage and they did not live together . |
| 24 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 25 | Hodge hoped that the Joint Commission would resume its work and he did not wish to convey the impression to Koreans that it was American policy to prevent unification . |
| 26 | His back was to the window and he did not turn to spare a glance at the crush of the zeks who squirmed against the grime of the windows . |
| 27 | His letter had not contained any regrets for her forthcoming ordeal and he did not look like a man who would have much patience with women in any case . |
| 28 | I appear to be in a bit of a slump and I did not play well in Hong Kong . |
| 29 | From all this you will have gathered I am not a ‘ Money Making Knitter ’ , but I enjoy my machine as much as the family do their video and motor sport and it does not cost any more ! |
| 30 | It had no clear origin and we did not wait to investigate . |