Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | saying is that , all I 'm is erm why do n't you erm ke do n't think of the money because how valuable is she to you ? |
| 3 | Their rejection did not make of them ‘ social outcasts ’ ( save to the unseeing ) but raised their mark intensely : they were closest to God . |
| 4 | The rest of the time , they were not disposed to look at Peter as a human being , but only as a rector , a creature of whom standards of motive and conduct were expected that they did not expect of themselves . |
| 5 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 6 | It did not go of its own accord . |
| 7 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 8 | The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa . |
| 9 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 10 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 11 | McFarlane did not think of this as war management : it was a matter of encouragement , ‘ smoke and mirrors . |
| 12 | They did not think of crofting as idyllic . |
| 13 | We did not think of going to live abroad or of buying property outside Palestine . |
| 14 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 15 | But underneath you did not think of them as individuals . |
| 16 | The three found so much to talk about that they did not think of tea till nearly five o'clock . |
| 17 | I suppose the choir at Beverley should be thankful he did not think of performing the nine lessons and carols up there on top of the tower . |
| 18 | They did not think of that … ’ |
| 19 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 20 | He did not think of Frederica Potter at all . |
| 21 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 22 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 23 | And all through this she did not think of Giles . |
| 24 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 25 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 26 | At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them . |
| 27 | ‘ I simply did not think of it . ’ |
| 28 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 29 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 30 | He did not think of Stef at all . |