Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as history is assumed to operate according to the protocols of a conventional logic , where a contradiction simply means you can not think it or do it as Hirst supposes , then it remains at the impasse he describes . |
| 2 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 3 | Let me make it plain I do not want you or need you here . |
| 4 | His article outlines the failure of research programmes in Argentina , Peru and Colombia during the last fifty years ( p.27 ) but does not explain it or help us to find a way round the problem . |
| 5 | For a moment , Eleanor Thorne did not recognise it and wondered whose hand it might be . |
| 6 | He admits that they did not trust him and avoided him . |
| 7 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 8 | Then I did not understand it but wished I did . |
| 9 | We are incompatible with them because they can not understand us or comprehend our heritage . |
| 10 | The daughter of that cruel Damophilus " had done all she could to comfort the slaves who were beaten by her parents " : so the slaves not only did not touch her but escorted her " to the home of certain kinsmen in Catana " ( 34.39 ) . |
| 11 | It does not touch it but vibrates its wings : in response the ant opens its jaws , between which the mosquito pushes its proboscis and steals the honey dew . |
| 12 | Right ‘ Thou standest on the threshold of days which are unknown , Thou standest at the gate where your path 's unmapped and shown , But God himself is with thee , thy Saviour keep a friend , And he will not forsake thee nor leave thee 'till the end , Thou pausest on the threshold , enfolded lies a year , But with God 's arms beneath thee , there is no cause to fear . |
| 13 | We can not see them or turn our minds from them . |
| 14 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 15 | Why not interpret her as expressing something tantamount to ‘ I have an unfulfilled desire ’ , or , ‘ make me feel nice ! ’ ? |
| 16 | But when you can not measure it and express it in numbers , your knowledge is of a very meagre and unsatisfying kind . " |
| 17 | Why not discover them and weave them into your do-it-yourself material . |
| 18 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 19 | Although it is usual to use the regular church organist , there is no reason why you should not approach her and explain your situation . |
| 20 | He 'd think she was an imbecile , anyway , so why not tell him and prove him right . |
| 21 | His host had darted across the room presumably to bring him a drink and as he looked around he saw other doors , other lights — so this spectacle which did not shock him nor dismay him but which he did not wish to be a part of , might not be the only play . |
| 22 | He did not question her but took her arm and helped her along . |
| 23 | This is the spirit of truth whom the world can not receive because it does not know him , does not behold him or know him , but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you . |
| 24 | In both , Schleiermacher can be seen attempting to chart a middle way between traditional orthodoxy and cold rationalism , to find a means of re-stating classical Christian convictions in a fresh and modern way which will not reduce them or dilute them , but rather uncover their real force and depth . |
| 25 | It happens at the moment anyway , so why not sanction it and make it a skill in itself . |
| 26 | She would not wake him or touch him or even lie close enough to feel his warmth . |
| 27 | This does not invalidate them or render them somehow doubtful — for they are indispensable — but it locates them and their validity firmly within the context of the mind 's encounter with experience rather than elsewhere . |
| 28 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 29 | There was and is no legal definition of privacy ; indeed there is no general agreement about what it is — like happiness we can not define it but recognise it when we have it , or more often we know when we feel we do not have it . |
| 30 | But he stayed where he was and he continued to regard the Robemaker from over the restricting mask and , presently , the Robemaker said , ‘ Does it not irk you and chafe you to be so confined , Wolfprince ? ’ |