Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 6 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I am sorry , but I do not think he loved you , James . |
| 9 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 10 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 13 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 14 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 15 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lina 's family will not want her to see me , but I am quite convinced she herself would welcome my presence . |
| 18 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 19 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 20 | We do not want them to know we are coming . ’ |
| 21 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 22 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 23 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 24 | I would not want anyone to think we had provided the final word . |
| 25 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 26 | He did not want anybody to see him . |
| 27 | I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me . |
| 28 | But I do not want you to marry me just because your parents wanted it . |
| 29 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 30 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |