Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 2 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 3 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 4 | I was therefore delighted to read in chapter three that the author , talking about oversimplified reasoning in music says , ‘ … . it does not explain why I respond with goose-pimples to Bach 's Kyrie every time I listen to it . ’ |
| 5 | This does not explain why she describes the movement of a crowd as ‘ hydric ’ , or locates the home of Mr Castro 's father , the Galician ex-soldier Angel Castro , in a ‘ nouveau wilderness ’ . |
| 6 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 7 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 8 | I can not explain how it feels they may not be human , but they are flesh and blood . ’ |
| 9 | I could not explain how I felt other than very special . |
| 10 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 11 | But I had not forgotten how she had lied , and behaved so badly to me as well as to Edgar Linton , so I did not feel sorry for her , or encourage her to talk . |
| 12 | She told me not to come round she did ! |
| 13 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 14 | The wind blows where it wills , and you hear the sound of it but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes . |
| 15 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 16 | She did not know why she had come . |
| 17 | Rachaela did not know why she had participated . |
| 18 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 19 | She knows , but does not know why she knows , or what she knows . |
| 20 | Never say you do not know why you picked certain subjects , or that other people decided for you , as this will show you in a negative light . |
| 21 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 22 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 23 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 24 | When Mr Leckey asked whether the fact Moore telephoned her three times before the killings and once afterwards showed there was ‘ something special in the relationship ’ , she said she did not know why he called . |
| 25 | He did not tell her that hers was the only female reputation he had ever given any thought to and that he did not know why he bothered . |
| 26 | I do not know why I did it . |
| 27 | I do not know where they get these dogs . |
| 28 | Who can be surprised that ordinary people do not know where they stand ? |
| 29 | The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand . |
| 30 | We do not know where he went to next , nor whether Richard was still with him . |