Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Do not think you sleep in the hand of God you sleep in the mouthpiece of a telephone |
| 32 | ‘ You should not think you have the Merkuts to thank for your freedom , ’ Jehan said conversationally . |
| 33 | ’ I do not think you have … much to offer . ’ |
| 34 | You might not think you do but you do . |
| 35 | Floy had asked about dangers and what they might expect to encounter , but Fenella did not think it looked especially dangerous . |
| 36 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 37 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 38 | Secondly , I do not think it does a college principal any harm to operate in a different framework , see how others organise themselves and bring a principal 's view to bear upon validation exercises — and possibly upon SCOTVEC itself ! |
| 39 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 40 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 41 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 42 | ‘ She 's had a lot of knocks in her life , although you might not think it to look at her , perhaps . |
| 43 | Instead : solidarity , charity , unity ; intrinsic and constitutional bonds with the primacy ; overcoming of Gallicanism , nationalism ( cf. local episcopal conferences ) -and fears of papal aggression ; obedience derived from within ; authority without jealousy or exclusiveness ( Non rapinam arbitratus est — He did not think it plunder , ( Phil . |
| 44 | I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings . |
| 45 | It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them . |
| 46 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 47 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 48 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 49 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 50 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 51 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 52 | In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’ |
| 53 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 54 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 55 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
| 56 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 57 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 58 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 59 | But it is tempting to suspect that one reason for Mr Major 's reluctance to shake out his cabinet is that he can not think who to put there instead . |
| 60 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |