Example sentences of "not [vb infin] what [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of this damage was , on this theory , that when the patient heard speech he could understand it but could not transmit what he had heard to the brain region for speech production , and so could not repeat it . |
| 2 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 3 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 4 | She looked with tentative excitement at Pat who , it seemed , did not know what she had said . |
| 5 | I do not know what you have heard and I will not ask . |
| 6 | For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone . |
| 7 | ‘ And you will not repeat what I have said , Herman . |
| 8 | ‘ The French do not betray what they have learnt until the despatches reach our embassy . ’ |
| 9 | She did not understand what he had meant until they were getting into the car . |
| 10 | If the computer does not understand what you have said it will ask questions , offer alternatives or tell you to rephrase your question and try again . |
| 11 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 12 | I have the impression that the man in Edmund Wilson 's novel , I Thought of Daisy , did not like what he had learned of philosophy at college . |
| 13 | It is a sad comment on our society that the Government can not see what they have done to young people and can not see the relationship between what they have done and the crime rate . |
| 14 | Now , one can not have what I have called a ‘ would-be belief ’ that something is x unless there is at least the possibility of taking the thing to be x . |
| 15 | We must ensure that any new action does not jeopardise what we have done or make us lose more than we have gained . ’ |
| 16 | I am her pupil , but I can not read what I have written , because the lights have just gone out and the glow of the electric fire has dwindled to nothingness . |
| 17 | I did not connect what I had happened upon with love . |
| 18 | I could not imagine what she had done to deserve such a punishment , but she did not look ashamed or unhappy . |
| 19 | I could not imagine what he had found to interest him so much . |