Example sentences of "[conj] not do [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Similarly , the thought of having to do or not to do something " for life " can be overwhelming . |
2 | Oh yes , if they want to come it does n't matter if it 's convenient to you or not does it ! |
3 | vivid description of him or not does it ? |
4 | or not doing what you set out to do . |
5 | Tom thought this a ridiculous reason for doing something ( or not doing something ) , because a person who knew nothing about it asked you . |
6 | He feels that the choice is really between hi sā and ahi sā , and not between doing one 's duty or not doing one 's duty . |
7 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
8 | Well erm , they , they do n't know whether they can do it or not do they ? |
9 | Well we do n't know whether it was wrong or not do we ? |
10 | Well I do n't know yet whether were going to be able to afford it or not do we ? |
11 | du n no whether he has or not do you ? |
12 | You do n't need bu but cos you have n't done it , you do n't know if you 'd pass it or or not do you ? |
13 | You do n't really know whether he wants you to or not do you ? |
14 | erm And what it makes people either do it or not do it , right from the forest end , right through to the consumer end . |
15 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
16 | We must n't he 's got really , really if it 's not done well it 's a it 's worse than not doing it all . |
17 | How could she have known , I thought , and not done anything about it ? |
18 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
19 | But whatever it is , why do n't you come and not do it here . ’ |
20 | There is , everybody has to acknowledge that there is a difference in the interpretation of what constitutes justice and one only has to see er , the sorts of attitude that are put across by certain judges , as to , erm , rape cases , and abuse cases , and how they , the press would have us believe , pat people over the head and tell them to go away and not do it again . |
21 | Sulaiman said : ‘ I 'm confident Lewis will go ahead with the fight and not do what Bowe did . ’ |
22 | Many clients had a tendency to just store their money away and not do anything with it and sit in clothes that did n't belong to them . |
23 | So you just sit and watch the telly for a year and not do anything he 's not gon na be very good |
24 | And not do anything . |
25 | And if you do n't feel that you can fit in a pupil comment , you have to be very careful here because some people will take it as a cop-out and not do it and a that worries me and it has happened and I think it is important that the youngsters are actually given some guidance and the opportunity to do it . |
26 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
27 | And he said yes I 've once done L S D and he said if you get the chance do it because you ca n't go through life , you know and not do it , you know , it 's something that you will do , you 'll find that all your friends will when you get older you know |
28 | Given a choice between doing something and not doing something people always do something , even if it 's the wrong thing . ’ |
29 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |
30 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |