Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] do not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 2 | Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting |
| 3 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 4 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |
| 5 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 6 | In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art . |
| 7 | By this I do not mean that the question of criteria is unimportant , or that the distinction remains meaningful even if there are no ontological objects at all to which it might be applied . |
| 8 | In this I do not think that Eliot exaggerated . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Brother Leo , if after all this I do not lose patience and remain calm , believe me , that is perfect joy ! ’ |
| 10 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 11 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 12 | This I do not know . |
| 13 | This I do not know , however , my own collection has reached 57 of those issued between Craven Arms and Bishop 's Castle . |
| 14 | I went back home by taxi because it was too dark for the helicopter to fly , and I 'm afraid I do not travel as well by road . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am afraid I do not understand , sir , ’ Morton said , straight-faced . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I do not understand . |
| 18 | Some types of marine which do not survive well in an aquarium ie some Butterflies |
| 19 | All sections are subject to an excess of £15 per person per section , except for Sections 1 , 3 , 9 and 12 which do not have an excess , and Section 4 in respect of Loss of Deposit only claims where the excess is only £5 per person . |
| 20 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 21 | Thus you and the employee may jointly search for standards which are mutually acceptable which do not lead to hours of argument about whether or not they have been achieved . |
| 22 | A normal 2¼ does not run out of steam at 60mph Check that on full throttle the carb is actually on full throttle 24v distributors do not have provision for a vacuum ignition timing advance only a mechanical system which is prone to failure Also as the 24v plugs are very expensive these are seldom changed once out of the forces A cure this You do not comment on the general state of the engine possibly a decoke , piston rings and cylinder head skim ( up to 65 thousandsths of an inch ) which will give you the performance and reliability you require |
| 23 | Looking at the ground , he said , ‘ You know me better than anyone , Giancarlo , but this you do not understand . ’ |
| 24 | So high you do not hear the crash , only the wind |
| 25 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |
| 26 | ‘ The vast majority of dog owners are responsible , but it is those few who do not take the necessary responsibility for their dogs that can cause very real problems for everyone . |
| 27 | But there are also a few who do not behave properly in their dealings with the public . |
| 28 | Burger smiled : ‘ But there will be very few who do not know if it is left to you , dear . |
| 29 | Writing to Poole in April 1799 , when the Cruikshanks had gone , he remarked that ‘ excepting yourself & Mother there is no human being attached to us & few who do not dislike us ’ . |
| 30 | I am afraid you do not realise the very serious implications of this affair . |