Example sentences of "[vb base] not do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try not to do it as you go , I mean , try to have a very definite idea in your mind what you want to do cos otherwise , you know , you start off , you 've painted half of it grey and think oh do n't like it like this bit ! |
| 2 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 3 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
| 4 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 5 | If , however , the leader says simply ‘ Do this ’ with no ‘ Simon says ’ , then the children do not do it . |
| 6 | Henry H noted threateningly at the end of a letter of command addressed to one of his prévôts : ‘ If you do not do this , William of Vernone or his servants will do it ; and if they do not do it , my justice shall do it . ’ |
| 7 | It is asking a good deal of students to abstract process from content if lecturers do not do it . |
| 8 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 9 | To be fair — after all , if I do not do it , I am sure that someone else will — I shall go back to the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 10 | As I say when you become a councillor you do not do it for money , I mean I think probably to be a better reason to become a councillor these days . |
| 11 | It affects your job , your job prospects , your family life and the hidden costs , such as letters , telephone calls leaflets and the rest of it , you do not do it for money . |
| 12 | But I do not do it , because I do not wish to upset Señora Richards . ’ |
| 13 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 14 | Or if you 're frightened or if you 're very anxious , if you 're gon na do something important and you 've not done it before and you get a bit anxious , you can use the ylang-ylang which is the Oil of Tranquillity . |
| 15 | I mean I 've not done it before this is |
| 16 | oh , I 've not done it yet this morning |
| 17 | But I 've not done it yet . |
| 18 | ‘ I promise not to do it again , ’ Paige declared handsomely . |