Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 2 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 3 | I said but I shall be wrong for not saying anything about you coming to work drunk . |
| 4 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 6 | She would not put it past him to use force . |
| 7 | Best not to say anything about it running in the family . |
| 8 | She said and I 'm not leaving her to you see ! |
| 9 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 10 | Much as he wanted to , and much as he had been moved by her tears , he could not find it in him to forgive her . |
| 11 | " Well , could you not find it in you to give her your blessings ? " |
| 12 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |