Example sentences of "not [verb] us [art] " in BNC.

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1 And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person .
2 If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup .
3 It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed .
4 They do not consider us a ‘ disgrace ’ and in fact many were happy to send a letter of support on our behalf to the recent appeal hearing .
5 Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for .
6 Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 .
7 It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice .
8 They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’
9 If so , why not give us a pension ?
10 Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control .
11 So why not give us a call !
12 The possibility that this sort of information is represented across an array of cells , rather than at the level of the single unit does , however , mean that single cell recording alone will not give us a useful answer .
13 ‘ Contrary to certain appearances , or at any rate to my expectations , Marx 's methodological reflections in Capital do not give us a developed concept , nor even an explicit concept of the object of Marxist Philosophy .
14 But the Bible does not give us a miracle on every page .
15 In the meantime , if you 've got a story you think we should be investigating , why not give us a call on the news line .
16 If you too believe you 're being exploited and do n't get a decent wage why not give us a call and tell us about it .
17 However , although we can keep this association in mind , it does not give us the whole picture .
18 It is a reminder that Chaucer and Langland do not give us the total picture .
19 But despite the undeniable tendency in financial markets towards a more laissez-faire environment , the term deregulation does not give us the full flavour of events .
20 Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions .
21 The UK economy may be a service-based economy in employment terms , but this does not give us an accurate picture of the output of service industries , that is , the productivity of the service sector .
22 But does this observation not give us an insight into a deeper foundation on which the individual disciplinary culture is based , a foundation which is common to all disciplinary formations permitted entry into the academic community ?
23 ‘ The standard of football we produced against Marseille did not warrant us a place in the final .
24 I understand that you wish to run the tape on UNIX on Sun/3 , but you have not told us the tape density you need .
25 The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper .
26 This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement .
27 ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’
28 ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth .
29 Why not drop us a line here at Outdoor Action ?
30 Why not drop us a line here at Outdoor Action ?
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