Example sentences of "not [verb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie said , ‘ I 'll not stay where I 'm not wanted so you need n't think it ! ’ mimicking Hepzibah in a determined mood , and Albert laughed briefly . |
| 2 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've lied to me ? ’ she enquired , not seeing how she could be offended when she , either outright or by implication , had told some whoppers . |
| 4 | Poindexter 's expression all through his testimony was one of mystification , shrouded in patient smoke , as if he really could not think why all these people wanted to ply him with questions . |
| 5 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 6 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 7 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 8 | I can not think why Mrs Talbot never chose to have any herself , there is really something special about a poultry yard . ’ |
| 9 | I can not think why . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 11 | When I could not think how to answer this , unaccustomed as I was to conversing with People , she went on , ‘ Do you speak English ? |
| 12 | Accordingly , it is not blackmail where the accused extorts oral sex from the victim because that is not " money or other property " . |
| 13 | Similarly , it is not blackmail where the accused extorts a position of honour or release from lawful custody . |
| 14 | It is not blackmail where the accused believes he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and believes the use of menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 15 | I was confused , not realising why you could n't speak to me to tell me what was wrong . |
| 16 | I 've heard of owls drowning in cattle troughs because they dive in to bathe , not realising how deep the water is , and become too wet and heavy to get out . |
| 17 | On the facts of Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 the accused could not be guilty of reckless manslaughter when he shot his best friend not realising how the chamber of a gun revolved on pressing the trigger . |
| 18 | Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light , she looked down into the courtyard . |
| 19 | It was not explained how this was done in detail , but a range of factors is used and county planning departments as consulted . |
| 20 | ‘ I have found that mere appeal to reason does not answer where prejudices are agelong and based on supposed religious authority . |
| 21 | And it has worked , so let's leave it alone , if it doesn , if it 's not broken why mend it ? |
| 22 | Another example — we have not examined how the government 's funding is affecting housing trusts , or its impact on the local housing market . |
| 23 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 24 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 25 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 26 | This does not explain why she describes the movement of a crowd as ‘ hydric ’ , or locates the home of Mr Castro 's father , the Galician ex-soldier Angel Castro , in a ‘ nouveau wilderness ’ . |
| 27 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 28 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 29 | Apparently he had quarrelled with Survage too , although he does not explain why . |
| 30 | And it certainly does not explain why those spaces of cultural criticism that the left does control — in the ‘ core ’ journals — should be so critically and politically inarticulate . |