Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House . |
| 2 | Then he read an article somewhere which said that the point of tasting a wine before it was poured was not to see if you liked it , but to make sure that it was n't corked . |
| 3 | I tried not to cringe when he chewed my left ear making a noise like a pig in a trough . |
| 4 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 5 | We tried to persuade Tom not to go and I told him to stay well away from the horses . |
| 6 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 7 | Although this questionnaire was based upon insights from case studies of self-evaluation in Solihull secondary schools , it was of course inevitable that some Solihull teachers might not consider that it asked what were , for them , the most pertinent questions . |
| 8 | ‘ But you were Mr Russell 's only child , my dear , and you must not doubt that he loved you , even if he did n't always make it perfectly apparent . ’ |
| 9 | While increasingly businesses claim to fulfil social purposes as well , they will not survive unless they satisfy their customers profitably in the market place . |
| 10 | Sturdy , who lives in Stanhope Road , Darlington , said : ‘ I do not know whether I supplied them . |
| 11 | She did not know that she gasped her sobs aloud . |
| 12 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 13 | I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’ |
| 14 | The board has tried to gather information about the bid , but we could not act until we knew who to act for or against . |
| 15 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 16 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 17 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 18 | If a third person steps in and gives a consideration for the discharge of the debtor , it does not matter whether he does it in meal or in malt , or what proportion the amount given bears to the amount of the debt . |
| 19 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 20 | She did not speak when he raised his eyebrows the second time , so in went onions , mustard and ketchup . |
| 21 | At first I could not speak because I hated him so much . |
| 22 | No I 've not decided but I know I am I 've done this thing before it 's |
| 23 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 24 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 25 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 26 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 27 | Andrée said not unreasonably , ‘ Why not do as I ask you and let me look after the consequences ? ’ |
| 28 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
| 29 | However , by its very nature , the scheme is complex , and we can not guarantee that minor difficulties may not emerge when we put it into practice . |
| 30 | He 's probably not bothered cos he knows he 's got in again ! |