Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one .
2 Catalogues and mail order services share the disadvantages of offering a limited selection , and , more importantly , not allowing you the chance to examine the item until it arrives at the door .
3 The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed .
4 No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do .
5 We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need .
6 If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup .
7 It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed .
8 ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’
9 Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ .
10 and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want .
11 She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester .
12 Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans .
13 Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for .
14 Even though the story reverberated through the Highlands , there is no evidence that either Boswell or Johnson knew the tale — had they done so , Boswell might have been less merry with his lubricious reasons as to why the woman would not show them the bedroom .
15 She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’
16 Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed .
17 If you get stuck , pressing a combination of keys will show you one solution but , will not show you the graphics display that follows , to see that , you must solve the puzzle yourself , and judging by the opening graphics should be pretty good .
18 Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’
19 A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems .
20 Can you not do it the coffee break ?
21 If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price .
22 But he did not give her the opportunity .
23 Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ?
24 I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care .
25 The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve .
26 In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors .
27 He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut .
28 She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg .
29 In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try .
30 I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available .
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