Example sentences of "certainly do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what does it matter to us , ordinary businesspeople , who have day to day jobs to do which certainly do not involve make or break run-ins with unions ? |
| 2 | I do n't think you would I certainly do n't think you would find divorced from the real world because he 's involved in consultancy work and research work with the national companies out with the organisation |
| 3 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 4 | ‘ I most certainly did not knock it over myself ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
| 5 | Experience alone most certainly did not secure an officer advancement in the customs administration and political interest was essential , as a letter received by Lord Panmure in 1739 made clear . |
| 6 | A chef in the professional sense of the word is just exactly what Boulestin was not and certainly did not pretend to be . |
| 7 | It certainly did not stop the corruption of power ! ’ |
| 8 | I certainly did not want existing company schemes to collapse and saw no reason why this should happen . |
| 9 | Petting meant doing that so no , she certainly did not want to be petted and much less to pet Edward . |
| 10 | The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation . |
| 11 | I did not feel sympathetic towards Catherine , and certainly did not want to frighten my poor master by telling him she was ill . |
| 12 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 13 | Nicholas certainly did not want to fight alone , and probably did not want to fight at all . |
| 14 | But the lords of rail , mine and steel-mill can not really have expected to look paternally over their workers ' shoulders at all times , and they certainly did not do so . |
| 15 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 16 | The neutrality of Cambodia and Laos certainly did not resolve the security problems of these states . |
| 17 | And he certainly did not mean legends and fairy stories ( some of which would be mythical in his sense , some of which would not ) . |
| 18 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 19 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 20 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 21 | It certainly did not diminish God or lessen His reality . |
| 22 | But the need for a military commander certainly did not diminish during Edward 's reign — it became increasingly common for a king-duke 's lieutenant to be appointed to lead the military forces of the duchy , as well as a seneschal with largely judicial functions . |
| 23 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 24 | She certainly did not blend it with the crowd . |
| 25 | Alice swore that he only took tea once , and certainly did not stay overnight . |
| 26 | If it was then the case , as William Weber wrote , that ‘ La musique ancienne returned to dominate … as never before ’ in the actual repertory , matters of performance practice , by contrast , certainly did not stay static . |
| 27 | I do not think those were happy times in Emerson 's marriage and they certainly did not enhance his general image in the sport . |
| 28 | Freud certainly did not hold this assertion to be true . |
| 29 | John Coffin was in his office crouched in the imitation Bauhaus chair which did not really accommodate his bulk and certainly did not offer the comfort it promised . |
| 30 | 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 . |