Example sentences of "do not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In fact they come under the grouping of ‘ Big Cats ’ , not only because they are large as cats go , but they roar and do not purr !
2 Do not tell the story , he wrote .
3 Do not tell any about me nor anyone except father and possibly Frank , write at once if you are going to .
4 Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood .
5 Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is .
6 The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more .
7 But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place .
8 Do not tell me that they are old ideas .
9 The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him .
10 Do not tell anyone your number .
11 While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes .
12 Please do not tell me that the object of professional boxing is to accumulate points by touching parts of the opponent 's head .
13 Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) .
14 ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest .
15 If candidates ' responses do not tell you what you need to know then follow up your initial question with a more specific one .
16 If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem .
17 How can we get the message across that counsellors do not make judgements , do not tell people what to do , do not try to force clients to sustain marriages which are no longer sustainable ?
18 As the Investors Chronicle of 18 September pointed out , most building societies do not tell their savers when one of their accounts ceases to be marketed to new investors , even if the existing investor could obtain a much better rate of interest by switching to another account with the same society .
19 Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story .
20 And … do not tell the Earl Patrick ! ’
21 Do not tell me that Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey , renowned in the ranks of chivalry , has been deprived of all dealings with the female kind ?
22 Unless you want to be force-fed stale angel cakes until you weigh 73 stones , do not tell these jokes at your Aunty 's .
23 What they do not tell , however , is the human dimension of the Pacific story — the human reasons behind the staggering growth of the region , the ways in which this virtuoso performance actually affects the lives of the men , women and children of the Pacific , and the ways in which the Pacific people are different in outlook , aspirations , fears and needs from those who live beyond the Ocean .
24 But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes .
25 The only problem with them is that they do not tell you how .
26 However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved .
27 In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength .
28 Also an empirical examination of relatively low level lawyers reported here shows that by and large lawyers do not tell clients what they want ; clients tell lawyers the outcome they wish for .
29 If he ever arrived at that most famous of all Dwarf Holds the Dwarf records do not tell .
30 But these conventions do not tell us anything about the student 's facility with abstraction nor about his or her logical performance .
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