Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I do not exactly expect you to give your share away , mademoiselle . |
2 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
3 | He does not really expect her to love him , and when she does it has to be total . |
4 | She could not really let herself understand what he was saying , but she knew she had to speak out , to let him know it was not just the thought of her father that had brought her here . |
5 | I could not simply invite you to visit me , situated as you are . ’ |
6 | She has lost the support of the town 's Social Democratic mayor , Peter Schönlein , who will not even let her represent him at official functions , and the political parties and their committees also systematically exclude her . |
7 | Without expert encouragement by people who know how to handle public relations , like Charles Aught , they may not even know they want anything . |
8 | She immediately began to live with another man and had more children by him , complaining to Miss Lidgett that the Guardians would not then allow her to visit her children by her first husband , who remained in the workhouse . |
9 | " I did n't just let her send me to bed — I wanted to go to bed . " |
10 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
11 | But erm Rivers did n't exactly subjugate it did he ? |
12 | They do n't exactly suit you do they ? |
13 | But the women were crouched so low over their work that their shawls shrouded their whole bodies , and I did n't once see them raise their eyes from the carcass . |
14 | And as I said , you can use these techniques with your team , or you can adapt them to use them on your own , because you do n't always have somebody to help you . |
15 | ‘ But the truth is that however sympathetic or kind one is , one ca n't ever do anything to prevent someone else hurting . ’ |
16 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
17 | Do n't ever let them get their knives in you . ’ |
18 | ‘ Do n't ever let me hear you say that again . ’ |
19 | Do n't ever let him hear you describe his mini-van as a bone-shaker ! ’ |
20 | Do n't ever tell anybody you fancy Like I was saying , do n't ever say you liked him ! |
21 | You would n't honestly expect me to let you get away with that sort of behaviour , would you ? ’ |
22 | ‘ And , having met some of you now , I ca n't honestly say I blame her . |
23 | He did n't really want her to hear her mother being strangled . |
24 | So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one . |
25 | She did n't really want him to touch her … |
26 | yeah , that 'll be nice , cos we do n't really want it do we ? |
27 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |
28 | I do n't really think it did us any harm . |
29 | ‘ You do n't really think I had anything to do with — with whatever 's happened ? ’ |
30 | Anyway , the head did n't really think I did it . ’ |