Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 2 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 3 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 4 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 5 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 6 | And I am sorry , but I do not think he loved you , James . |
| 7 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 8 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 9 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |
| 10 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 11 | But this does not mean they caused them to appear . |
| 12 | well I 'll get the car and you can go out , I says you 're not getting the car out and I 'll not go I said you can go |
| 13 | She could not let him read it now , in the middle of the preparations . |
| 14 | She would not let it beat her . |
| 15 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |
| 16 | Oh well as we do n't know any of them , we 'd better not sing them had we ? |
| 17 | They loved one another and did not care who knew it . |
| 18 | If Foley were a traitor , he did not care who knew it , it would seem . |
| 19 | A few chroniclers report the events of the war but they do not say what caused it . |
| 20 | Is it wrong , then , to pay heed to Mr Ingham 's remarks merely because one can not say who made them ? |
| 21 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't make me split me sides , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can talk all right , do n't I know it . |
| 23 | Ah , but I did n't want one did I ? |
| 24 | You really did n't want it did you ? |
| 25 | Even in a joke he did n't want it called his . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't think what kept her so long . |
| 27 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think we asked her . ’ |
| 29 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |