Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 2 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 3 | Yet the photographs proved it had not stopped her pursuing her curiosity to Oxford . |
| 4 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 5 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 6 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 7 | Do not think you walk your own road , you walk down a telephone |
| 8 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 9 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 10 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 11 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 12 | Upon recovering , he admitted he had been extremely depressed since the death of his wife from cancer a year earlier and now did not think he had anything to live for . |
| 13 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 14 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 15 | And I am sorry , but I do not think he loved you , James . |
| 16 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 17 | I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess . |
| 18 | We can create conditions for an employer , but we can not make him employ someone under those conditions . |
| 19 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 20 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 21 | It can not make me change my mind , so if you intend using it use it and shoot me now . |
| 22 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 23 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 24 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 26 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 27 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 28 | While we would not want him to show his full negotiating hand at this stage , he gave us very little information . |
| 29 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 30 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |