Example sentences of "[pron] not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
| 2 | We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me . |
| 3 | ‘ Did I not say that he was a good secretary ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's a shame you ai n't got no 'ome nor fam'ly , but I do n't like to see someone not eatin' when they 're laid up , you need a bit of food then . |
| 5 | I was n't put off by the fact that Jo had told me not to call or see her . |
| 6 | I mean let me not allege that you 're one of the worst , but you say ‘ Dear Motorists , erm may we congratulate you on the acquisition of your new vehicle . |
| 7 | Let me not suggest that he could not work freely and spontaneously when he chose , as we see in the late The Gipping from Blakenham , 1977 , a watercolour which displays admirable freedom as opposed to recklessness . |
| 8 | And let me not suggest that booksellers are blameless either . |
| 9 | Stupid of me not to realise that here , also … |
| 10 | He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way . |
| 11 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 12 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 13 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 14 | However , from the moment they can talk , they should be encouraged to explain why they have done something you told them not to do and given time to do so , especially when they are still clumsy or slow with words . |
| 15 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
| 16 | kept the children in bed , told them not to move and the boy , the gi erm , what 's her name , I ca n't think of her name now , she erm , she woke her , her husband chased them both downstairs , tell you where they live , you know Lawrence Hill ? |
| 17 | In all this , as in everything else in their lives , you can help them best by listening with patience and sympathy , never dismissing their anxieties — however unreasonable they may seem to be — simply by telling them not to worry because you will always see that they are all right . |
| 18 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 19 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 20 | ‘ I have told them not to think that lightning ca n't strike twice , ’ the former Wimbledon champion said . |
| 21 | Its not known if the Government will take on any of the reports recommendations but as far as the campaigners are concerned the battle is far from being lost . |
| 22 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 23 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 24 | Did she not think that such grieving as she had showed was somehow too much for any memory to bear ? |
| 25 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 26 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 27 | Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ? |
| 28 | When they were so intimately joined , how would she not know if he were cheating on her ? |
| 29 | My Lords whilst thanking the Noble Baroness the Minister for that reply , would she not agree that when they get into hospital the accident case or the emerg emergency case , they 've probably been sent there by a doctor and that there they should th therefore be handled , but what the associations are concerned about , particularly the Royal College of Nursing , the B M A and Unison is that emergency and accident cases are put in corridors on trolleys and this ought not to be th a situation which can be tolerated . |
| 30 | This is something which has been drawn to my attention on many occasions and would she not agree that there are many of us who very much regret the fact that so many parents er are find it difficult to exercise their right to vote , because there is so much opposition er at a local level from officials |