Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 2 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 3 | Perhaps you would rather I did not speak like this . " |
| 4 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 5 | Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 6 | You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I do not want to know you either , mademoiselle , ’ he rasped . |
| 8 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 9 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps I did not hear . ’ |
| 12 | Obviously I do not know but , if I had to bet , I would put my money on one fundamental principle . |
| 13 | Personally I do not go to meetings which do not have a purpose . |
| 14 | Personally I do not believe that if there is some global warning , so-called , it will endanger our planet or its inhabitants . |
| 15 | In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists . |
| 16 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
| 17 | So I do not have grounds for my judgment or my exclamation . ’ |
| 18 | Why that is so I do not know . |
| 19 | So I do not know him well . |
| 20 | So I do not believe |
| 21 | So I do not hear it . |
| 22 | So I did not feel too unhappy at leaving ‘ The Western ’ premises . |
| 23 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
| 24 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 25 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
| 26 | So I did not spend all my time peering upwards , searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles . |
| 27 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 28 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 29 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 30 | Then somehow she was spreadeagled along the seat and he was half-kneeling , half -lying on top of her and suddenly she did not think that what was between her legs was his finger . |