Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 61 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |
| 62 | It would be better to admit that these murderous wishes and impulses exist than to deny them , and feel guilt-laden as a result of not allowing ourselves to see them for what they are . |
| 63 | ‘ I could n't diet , ’ Robyn declared , deliberately not allowing herself to imagine what all the women he had known would look like . |
| 64 | History does not relate what steps she used . |
| 65 | I am not suggesting we abandon it : the fact that we have not found ways to extract the information does not deny the existence of the factors or traits . |
| 66 | so even if he sort of made a , a bodge , I 'm not suggesting he has he 's not likely to , to say yes that 's because of that . |
| 67 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 68 | ‘ But if I am not fit it effects my batting , bowling and fielding . ’ |
| 69 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 70 | For instance , suppliers to transport and defence industries are now being faced with strict safety and reliability specifications and do not win contracts if they can not demonstrate they meet them . |
| 71 | As she stood there , heart racing , just for a moment Lisa did not trust herself to answer him . |
| 72 | Norman Fowler who , as is customary , devoted the first part of his reply to saying something nice about the speakers ( ‘ Amaranth Wilikins does not need me to gild her lily . |
| 73 | But I have just explained , surely you do not need me to tell you . |
| 74 | Seeing Curtis at the door in that way she did not need him to repeat his announcement . |
| 75 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 76 | Although they do not need it to fight they are usually armed with a big club made from a tree trunk . |
| 77 | John does the same , with his emphasis that , ‘ You all have knowledge … you do not need anyone to teach you ’ ( I John 2:20,2 7 ) . |
| 78 | And you do not need anyone to teach you . |
| 79 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 80 | ‘ Do not trouble yourself to elaborate your answers , sir ; a simple yes or no will suffice . |
| 81 | Aubrey 's revelations had shocked her , but she did not doubt he knew what he was talking about . |
| 82 | Please give the things to the Station Master , because we do not know which train you come back on . |
| 83 | Children are often snappish and can not be touched ; they want to do as they please yet do not know what pleases them ! |
| 84 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 85 | 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 . |
| 86 | 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 ’ . |
| 87 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |
| 88 | Souness said that the Zimbabwean had not approached him to discuss his future despite public grumblings from him that his future lay away from the club . |
| 89 | Why not let him think he 'd won the argument ? |
| 90 | ‘ Better not let him hear you say that , sir . |