Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [coord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines .
2 Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own .
3 It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out .
4 Since we are only concerned with a point of law , the precise facts do not matter but I should indicate them briefly to show the limited scope of this decision .
5 This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed .
6 If the carriage stops short and is still connected to the band , when you then try to take the lace carriage across , the band can not move and it will snap .
7 There are , however , a lot of old soldiers who can not attend but who would welcome the chance to meet their old comrades .
8 In a very important class of case , namely , actions upon cheques and other bills of exchange , the rule does not apply and we can see no reason why it should apply at all .
9 The cannon does not fire and you must test the boiler in the same way as at the start of the turn .
10 It is partly because they are desperate to divert attention from the recession — which they created , from which they can not escape and which will lose them the election — and partly because they are desperate to conceal the enormity of what they have done in wilfully impoverishing the poorer half of the nation .
11 However , is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a system of local income tax would not create economic ghettos and areas in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the local Labour authority would have carte blanche without capping — something which he will not allow and which will have to be dealt with through exemptions ?
12 He could not comprehend but he could feel it .
13 Do away with the brutality of the ‘ cat ’ , but keep the birch , which may hurt , which will not injure and which will bring ridicule on the person who receives it .
14 The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other .
15 Lancashire has developed plans to open several stations which BR can not resource but which would exceed 8 per cent return on capital .
16 Right we 've got to keep that , I 'll give you what I do n't want and you can put it in the bin
17 I did n't think But I would imagine so .
18 Well I do n't think and nobody will turn this you know this he nobody would , he 'd put his mind to something and there is nobody on earth that could turn him .
19 He did n't answer and I should have walked away then and there .
20 We ca n't win but we must keep trying .
21 When they had sort it out they just did n't know but they would go you know prancing around saying to one another saying then .
22 I do n't know but they used to go
23 It was n't bad , it was — well , I know something you do n't know but you 'll find out .
24 There is no shame in saying , ‘ I do n't know but I 'll try to find out ’ , provided that you do ‘ try and find out ’ and report back .
25 Now I do n't know but I would imagine that Lord and Lady Fairburn should be drummed out of Parliament , well he should .
26 Do n't know but I can remember what happens with the alkali and the acid , you get calcium chloride , er it 's the same .
27 How deliberately he used the wrong names I do n't know but he would announce that he was about to demonstrate the " Leg push " .
28 I do n't know but he used to drive it .
29 When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't .
30 I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me .
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