Example sentences of "[pron] do not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
| 2 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 3 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 4 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 5 | I do not by any means place all my faith in so-called Urtext editions , but it is worth mentioning that the Lea Pocket Scores of Beethoven 's works were reprints of the nineteenth-century Breitkopf und Härtel collection edition . |
| 6 | A letter dated March 2nd already betrays some misgiving through its protestation : ‘ I do n't for one minute doubt about the fall of Verdun . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies . |
| 8 | The Monty Python star recently said : ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies — odd , is n't it ? ’ |
| 9 | " Enlightening , enlightening , " said Clelia , " I do n't at all like the sound of that word . |
| 10 | But I do n't at all mind saying what I think I should want done in the circumstances . |
| 11 | I do n't at this moment , envisage that the need for any further resources in this area . |
| 12 | What we find is that the virtually unadapted fabliau of this kind , a version of the world of production , religion and sexual relationships ( which do not in this case imply reproduction ) is a literary genre that , allowed to follow its own logic to the very end , shames the active characters within the tale , which in this case includes the feigned narrator . |
| 13 | The genealogical trigger determining the numbers involved , the extensiveness of the quarrel , is thus the branching of the tree through brotherhood : by tracing the extent of obligation to two brothers ( rather than to their father ) each disputant secures the maximum of supporters who owe him loyalty and who do not in that particular instance owe loyalty to the other side . |
| 14 | A perfect spine is an all-important factor in preserving those conditions and uses of the human machine which work together for perfect health , yet there are comparatively few people who do not in some form or degree suffer , perhaps quite unconsciously , from excessive spinal curvature . |
| 15 | After bullying the Queen into paying income tax ‘ like everybody else ’ the Government has been embarrassingly reminded by the Birt affair of the many high earners who do not by any means pay tax like everybody else . |
| 16 | You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is |
| 17 | You do n't at all ? |
| 18 | You think you look thinner and you do n't at all . |
| 19 | But you do n't at any stage say , what did you say that for , you know , something like that , you just do n't do that sort of thing . |
| 20 | well you do n't with this |
| 21 | you do n't with this it 's quite good it 's not bad at all |
| 22 | If you missed the Contest of Champions this year , make sure you do n't in 1993 . |
| 23 | you do n't by any chance want to borrow that four pound you just lent me do ya ? , wow |
| 24 | The point is that you do not in this ‘ original position ’ know how to be biased and hence have to be fair : justice in this context would have to be ‘ blind ’ . |
| 25 | We do n't with thousand pound in his back pocket ca n't be bad . |
| 26 | We do not in scientific experience move from an external world of things to an abstract world of ideas ; we always move within a single world of quantitative ideas . |
| 27 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 28 | But they do n't , they do n't at all |
| 29 | If they do n't wriggle free of blame , they do n't in any case care . |
| 30 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |