Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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1 | Given SAAB 's very positive experience with line-out , it is surprising that BL did not consider emulating it in that it appeared to offer benefits both to management and workers . |
2 | Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions . |
3 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
4 | It is extremely important that you have an organisation structure that is clearly understood and then you should not keep altering it . |
5 | To the manager 's surprise the man freely confessed that he felt poor at supervising and did not like doing it anyway . |
6 | Jim did not like doing it . |
7 | Today , the Germans do not envisage doing it any other way either . |
8 | There must have been a point of no return , but Holly could not remember passing it . |
9 | In fact , he could not stop reading it , and over the years , it became more and more interesting to him . |
10 | a car seat a week ago , it was an absolute , I could not stop laughing it was so funny ! |
11 | The idea of ‘ theory ’ has now become so pervasive , so much a part of the terms of current debate , and so visibly incorporated into institutions , that I shall not resist using it . |
12 | Later , in the supper-room with the tall Senator in earshot , he could not resist doing it again , with Maybelle egging him on , loudly drawling his opinion of Sally-Anne 's reputation — or lack of it . |
13 | In reading this last poem we may glimpse a solution to the problem of Wordsworth 's decline — the Imagination had become a power so terrible that he could not risk indulging it , and yet it would not release him from its grip . |
14 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
15 | Although respect for the bear did not preclude killing it , due apology had to be made , and strict rules governed the disposal of its carcass . |
16 | When she walked into Matthew 's sitting-room , Sara could not help comparing it with the drawing-room downstairs , it was so clean and fresh and comfortable . |
17 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
18 | The appeal of this lies , I suggest , in the fact that if we imagine a beautiful object , we can not help thinking it good that there should be such a thing . |
19 | We know we should find porn utterly repellent but we can not help finding it endlessly fascinating . |
20 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
21 | round the roses and I did n't fancy doing it so |
22 | Yeah , but I do n't want having it ? |
23 | Mm , and I do n't think bodging it up it seems to be doing the seems to be doing any good . |
24 | ‘ I do n't think sewing it together would be the slightest use . ’ |
25 | He has a genius for conducting but he does n't enjoy doing it . |
26 | It did n't matter admitting it now that it was over . |
27 | I ca n't keep pretending it 's someone else 's fault . |
28 | Yes , oh aye , aye , just use it for the month Charlie and then , and then in the bucket , do n't keep using it after that . |
29 | Do n't keep biting it then |
30 | Do n't keep rubbing it in ! |