Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it comes down to is do we , or do we not approve of killing animals for fun do we approve of allowing a pack of dogs to hunt an animal to its death . |
| 2 | Or did she not think at all ? |
| 3 | Or did you not bother with the slap because you were enjoying the tickling so much ? ’ |
| 4 | Or had they not known about it ? |
| 5 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 6 | This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it . |
| 7 | If the distributor 's buyer opens them up and finds them not to comply with a condition in his contract he may reject them . |
| 8 | God promises his people comfort and invites us not to live in sorrow . |
| 9 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 10 | Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ? |
| 11 | Is not utilitarianism , for example , a form of morality , and does it not differ from the kind of morality that one might associate with a religious form of life ? |
| 12 | And have we not got ta take care that we do n't we do n't have such an enormous list |
| 13 | Keep them to objective statements and re-remind them not to speculate on subjective reasons like ‘ emotional rejection ’ , ‘ lack of love ’ , etc . |
| 14 | ‘ There are some initiatives going on which interest me , whereby young women who had a child when they were adolescent , and although they love the child , regret very much that they were too young , too immature , and too unsupported to care for it effectively : it 's being suggested that they should go into schools and talk to girls about the glories of motherhood at the right time , but begging them not to embark on it too young . |
| 15 | But did we not read in St. John that it is Jesus who makes the Father known and discloses to us his nature ( John I 18 , 3:13 etc . ) |
| 16 | But did it not occur to you , ’ Theda said , her breast heaving with the passion she was only just holding in check , ‘ that I have lately not been seen ? |
| 17 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 18 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |