Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 31 | An increase from eleven to seventeen in the number of the latter should not throw us ! |
| 32 | If the Minister can not reassure us and explain how he intends to achieve those objectives , he should accept our proposals . |
| 33 | ‘ They did not outclass us . |
| 34 | I mean I I 'd love to see the the whole history and that 's why I 'm glad that erm you people are taking an interest now in not helping us but some day somebody saying who 's that crank who 's been talking on there . |
| 35 | There are things which God has not given us to know , and we must learn to accept this patiently . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It is for this reason that we sometimes ‘ know ’ details about a character that the author , we are surprised to find , has not given us . |
| 38 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 39 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 40 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 41 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 42 | And there was never a time when the life of Jesus is not shaping us . |
| 43 | ‘ The Prime Minister wrote back to our local MP , Phil Gallie , saying that the French government would not compensate us because there had been no attack on our lorry or the load . |
| 44 | This is undoubtedly correct but in our judgment it does not assist us in what we have to decide . |
| 45 | They do not consider us a ‘ disgrace ’ and in fact many were happy to send a letter of support on our behalf to the recent appeal hearing . |
| 46 | The Earl of Angus , too , had not forgotten us . |
| 47 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 48 | Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design . |
| 49 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 50 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 51 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 52 | ‘ He 's not driving us round , then ? ’ |
| 53 | For a start , this proposition would seem deeply alarming to a common lawyer , but that need not trouble us here . |
| 54 | Initially , these Franco-German telecommunications satellites did not trouble US interests ; they were experimental or confined to educational or other non-commercial purposes . |
| 55 | The three pirates who were still on the island did not trouble us . |
| 56 | There is such a thing , we say there , as life that is unworthy of life , and I do n't know about that , but nobody wants them , not even us , and they leave here the same day for some other place , in the coach with the tinted windows . |
| 57 | Well , he does come down — not to thump us but to love us in Jesus , to teach us the Christian way , and to take our sins and failures to the cross and to rise again in triumph for us all . |
| 58 | Boyd has not disappointed us . |
| 59 | The ex-members could go into a corner and negotiate a new treaty for a small er number , but that would not include us . ’ |
| 60 | Early efforts to become involved in multi-agency approaches to crime and associated topics were painful experiences … we wanted to maintain the lead in every forum , to be the gatekeepers of power and have the right of veto if decisons were made which did not suit us . ’ |