Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 2 | Of course , the laibon does not phrase it as I have . |
| 3 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 4 | He remarked that if they did not exist he and many others in his position would have to invent them ! |
| 5 | The program is menu driven but one of the best features is the ability to input new data at practically any stage , i.e. if you are entering an invoice and the product does not exist you are able to create it there and then without exiting to the previous menus . |
| 6 | Where there is close liaison between ward teachers and the school of nursing , and where ward experience is part of a planned programme , this information will be available from previous teaching ; but where these conditions do not exist it is necessary for the clinical teacher to carry out her own checks with the students before the teaching can be planned . |
| 7 | It is extremely unlikely that if the House of Lords did not exist it would be invented in its present form . |
| 8 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 9 | When an agreed standard of performance does not exist it might be useful to compare present performance with some previous base period ( e.g. the same month last year ) . |
| 10 | But she would not lend him any . |
| 11 | ‘ I could not lend it to you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’ |
| 13 | She could not swallow it . |
| 14 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 15 | Even this dithering Prime Minister can not evade it . |
| 16 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 17 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 18 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 19 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 20 | Hess did not have a normal christening for Wolf Rudiger , the Fuhrer does not think them good enough for Nazis . |
| 21 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 22 | I do not think we could justify turning our backs . ’ |
| 23 | I really do not think we are much brighter than monkeys , and monkeys are killed in experiments . |
| 24 | I did not think we could invade this year . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Personally , I do not think we need an alternative god to look up to . |
| 27 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 28 | I do not think we could bid for the money part as Japan has the reputation of trying to get its own way by money . |
| 29 | Do you not think we should have an anti-arrhythmic agent rather than £600 worth of thrombolysis in our medical bag ? |
| 30 | In the phonetic/phonological dimension , I do not think we should speak too readily of Early Modern ‘ Standard ’ English . |