Example sentences of "[noun prp] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa . |
| 2 | Some 40 per cent of services in Flanders do not employ such staff ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , the decision to establish institutes of higher education in every country except Powys did not materialize wholly in the form proposed in the outline plan . |
| 5 | Ari did not like Tammuz Malamute . |
| 6 | According to senior Government sources , relations with the French are now so bad Mr Major and Mr Mitterrand do not talk to each other . |
| 7 | Woolley did not move . |
| 8 | Lucifer did not hear him . |
| 9 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
| 10 | The Sheikha again said that it was a story from the days past but Halema did not say another word . |
| 11 | Alas , the Kremlin did not like it . |
| 12 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 13 | As for the Nehru , England 's first match is on 15 October , while India and Pakistan do not get under way until the 22nd . |
| 14 | The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven . |
| 15 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 16 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 17 | He shared the disappointment when the United States did not join the Baghdad Pact in 1955 . |
| 18 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 19 | The smooth-bore muskets which British soldiers used against Napoleon did not differ very substantially from those which their ancestors carried against Louis XIV . |
| 20 | The subversive implications of Lamarck 's thought — in particular the implication that a person 's character , destiny and deserts are not wholly determined by his breeding — aroused some disfavour : Napoleon did not like Lamarck . |
| 21 | Considering the effects of language on delicate sensibilities , John Mortimer — whose main concern had been to keep the Sex Pistols as far away from court as possible — pondered that the word Maidenhead did not appear to cause the inhabitants of that town any problems . |
| 22 | The occupant of the Mercedes did not stir . |
| 23 | Now that the old man knew of his weakness , Vashinov did not want the project to fail and thereby have the finger of incompetence pointed at him . |
| 24 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 25 | That hurt , but Shiona did not show it . |
| 26 | Rupert Murdoch did not say that his Sky company and its associate Eurosport channel were ready yet to go head-to-head in rights fights with BBC when he announced a joint contract with them for England 's Test series in the West Indies this winter . |
| 27 | Surely Cunningham did not mean to pretend nothing had happened . |
| 28 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 29 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 30 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |