Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | du n no whether he has or not do you ? |
| 2 | Yeah , the erm the alternator or distributor it had n't been wired properly , it had been rewired but not done properly . |
| 3 | We shall assume that you have come to work but not to do it all the time . |
| 4 | She may experience a crisis of disbelief in her religious faith , or direct her anger towards the medical or nursing staff who cared for her husband , for failing to save his life ; or she may blame family or friends and have feelings of guilt and anger against herself for things that were done or not done during his lifetime . |
| 5 | Whatever other pruning is done or not done , this first principle is obligatory — even when the catalogues and reference books state ‘ no pruning needed ’ . |
| 6 | Neurotics may appear to be concerned for others , but this is based on unconscious hostility towards someone , so that their concern that someone may die , or fall very ill unless some particular action of their own is done or not done , really masks an unconscious wish for their death : ‘ … the original wish that the loved person may die is replaced by a fear that he may die ’ . |
| 7 | The Occupiers ' Liability Act 1984 outlines where an occupier owes a duty to a trespasser in respect of any risk of that person suffering injury on the premises , by reason of any damage due to the state of the premises or to things done or not done on the premises . |
| 8 | Guilt that the family member himself or herself may possibly have been in part a cause of the problem in the primary sufferer either by something done or not done . |
| 9 | A surety covenants that those things shall be done or not done as the case may be . |
| 10 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 11 | They can nevertheless do or not do various things that diminish its effects or progress . |
| 12 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 13 | Er because it would be stupid for me go on stage singing and not do a selection of all those songs that th they 're the reason I 'm here . |
| 14 | The Russian felt inadequate , but was persuaded that not doing the leg would just put him further behind as the crew developed experience . |
| 15 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 16 | ( If the expression ‘ form of life ’ is found puzzling , think of what life would be like if we never asked people to do or not to do things , never apologised for doing or not doing things , and so on . ) |
| 17 | At the wedding rehearsal we got the video camera out and ( bridegroom 's name ) said , ‘ To do or not to do … ’ |
| 18 | Similarly , the thought of having to do or not to do something " for life " can be overwhelming . |
| 19 | And he said yes I 've once done L S D and he said if you get the chance do it because you ca n't go through life , you know and not do it , you know , it 's something that you will do , you 'll find that all your friends will when you get older you know |
| 20 | Whilst demonstrating all too clearly her feeling that la Sologne belonged to her family , and I had no real place in it , she was able to discuss with Jean-Claude and me what we could reasonably expect from the area today , and lay down , precisely , what it was appropriate to do and not to do among the Solognats . |
| 21 | This wider meaning comprehends the normative attitudes held by the people towards government , their conception of how power ought to be regulated , of what it is proper to do and not to do . |
| 22 | Donald flapped and fought and struggled , damaged but not done for , and Angelica — not unaware of the absurdity of trying to maintain some kind of formality under such circumstances , said , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ |
| 23 | ( If the expression ‘ form of life ’ is found puzzling , think of what life would be like if we never asked people to do or not to do things , never apologised for doing or not doing things , and so on . ) |
| 24 | What are we doing or not doing in Scotland that is alienating from us our natural Scottish supporters ? ’ |
| 25 | Still Lambert circled , uselessly , neither doing nor not doing . |
| 26 | But whatever it is , why do n't you come and not do it here . ’ |