Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 2 | ‘ You should not think you have the Merkuts to thank for your freedom , ’ Jehan said conversationally . |
| 3 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 4 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 5 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 6 | It 's not a position where A number of people have the idea that it ca n't be a beneficiary , it can , it often is a beneficiary for the obvious reason that if the beneficiaries are getting the goodies , why not make them do the work necessary to get hold of them ? |
| 7 | How then can God say to Moses ( Exodus 6:2–3 ) that " by my name the Lord I did not make myself known the them " ( i.e. Abraham , etc . ) ? |
| 8 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 9 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 10 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 11 | I did not want her to face the rings that dissolve into the banks of time 's pond when the dead-weight falls to its depths . |
| 12 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 13 | They connected him up , but there was nowhere to hang the bag of saline solution , and they did not want someone blocking the aisle holding it . |
| 14 | Nutty had given them a thorough grounding in the process , and put out the evening feeds ready , not trusting them to get the quantities right . |
| 15 | I 'm not suggesting you know the switch |
| 16 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 17 | It must surely be the case that the cat is competent to act as observer of its own survival or demise and does not need me to settle the issue for it . |
| 18 | The air waybill is not a full fledged document of title because the consignee does not need it to obtain the goods from the carrier . |
| 19 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 20 | None of these sections was apparently bottomed if the drawings are to be believed , so we do not know what underlay the burnt layer . |
| 21 | Because we do not know who owns Delion we do not know who bought the property , which raises the question of why the purchasers want to remain anonymous . |
| 22 | I do not know who pays the salaries of the people who drafted it . |
| 23 | Woodman demonstrates that the owner need not know he owns the property . |
| 24 | Guillaume , it appears , did not exert himself to keep the promise and Modigliani repeatedly asked Zbo about them . |
| 25 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 26 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 27 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 28 | He could not bring himself to say the words , so great was his terror of plague . |
| 29 | At the last Arlott could not bring himself to sign the contract . |
| 30 | Lung cancer victim Roy could not bring himself to shake the hand of the former Prime Minister , who is said to earn £550,000 as a consultant for US tobacco giant Philip Morris . |