Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the Day of the Dead she went to the cemetery and cried out over the sound of her own deep sobbing ‘ Mama , you are lucky not to see us so unhappy . |
| 2 | About women like me — and you who walk like ghosts through a world that tries not to see us . |
| 3 | Since we shall be concerned only with measurements in the NIR this will not affect us here , but it should be noted that a combination of NIR and red reflectance is usually considered to give better results than in the NIR alone , and in this case the presence of senescent material would need to be considered . |
| 4 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 5 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 6 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 7 | Although not confronted regularly by Aids we can no longer pretend that it does not affect us . ’ |
| 8 | Bitterness not only results from our response to an offence ; it can also result from the notion that life has not treated us fairly . |
| 9 | His lively and entertaining speech proved our long-held view of the sales force that when they are not annoying us , they are out playing golf ! |
| 10 | Most who drive cars would agree that does not make us expert mechanics . |
| 11 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 12 | Dr Leslie Weatherhead wrote , in Prescription for Anxiety , ‘ Deadness of feeling , even if we think we do not love anybody , not even God , must not make us worry . |
| 13 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 14 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 15 | But such theorising , however ‘ moral ’ , does not make us moral theorists . |
| 16 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 17 | Let me say , straight away , it does not make us invincible . |
| 18 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 19 | We can go through Sunday school and bible school , we can sit in church year after year , after year and take it all in and learn great reams of the bible by heart , and be able to explain this and that , that does not make us , a Christian ! |
| 20 | And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person . |
| 21 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 22 | You must … convince us that you do not want us to declare war simply in order to terrify the English into making peace by a naval promenade in the Channel . |
| 23 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 24 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 25 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
| 26 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 27 | If the Labour party did not want us to vote for its councillors , what confidence can we have in the people that it puts up for election ? |
| 28 | I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I do not want us to stop being friends . |
| 30 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |