Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 2 | I mean not gon na ask you anything difficult . |
| 3 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 4 | I hate not knowing — ‘ |
| 5 | Firstly because I hate not working and I have n't worked as a club DJ for eight years , so this was a way back in . |
| 6 | I tend not to shop in places like Marks and Spencer , but they have got some good gear in there . |
| 7 | COOK 'S NOTE : I tend not to use virgin olive oil for this dip as I find the flavour too strong for the roe . |
| 8 | Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport |
| 9 | Well as it 's used in other muckier places I tend not to use it over cleaning table white cloths aah |
| 10 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 12 | I 'm responsible for the sort of overall management , but I tend not to get out as much as say , Area Housing Officers , they 're more sort of at grass roots . |
| 13 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
| 14 | ‘ Remiss of me , but I tend not to socialise . ’ |
| 15 | and I effect not to listen |
| 16 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 17 | Suppose , well , I say not thinking one evening , I nearly missed the bus this morning , I had to run like billy-o , sure as fate Aunt Annie would say , think yourself lucky you can run . |
| 18 | As I take a step forward I say not to worry , I am not police . |
| 19 | What what I propose not to do is to ask Mrs to read her summary . |
| 20 | As the use of Carbonflo has not been totally proved yet , I suggest not using it in your diesel . |
| 21 | I want not to move your passions but your reason . |
| 22 | I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness . |
| 23 | There is much hypocrisy practised against homosexuals and I hope not to contribute to it , but it is not all on the one side . |
| 24 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 25 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 26 | You see , even I know not to repeat myself ! |
| 27 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 28 | ‘ It is dramatic stuff , I believe , though I confess not to have read any . |
| 29 | As an immunologist I dislike not understanding the mechanism ( which logic suggests is immunological ) , but we use the technique regularly and it works . |
| 30 | I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods . |