Example sentences of "someone [pron] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm angry with someone I love and trust , I can express my anger in tears with them ; if I am angry with someone I do not love , then I withhold my tears — to be expressed later , in a safe situation , or not at all . |
| 2 | are not swayed by an attractive personality into giving the job to someone who does not fulfil the requirements ; |
| 3 | Try and be aware of this as a problem , asking yourself whether the candidate is genuinely not suitable but simply someone who does not fit in with your own picture of yourself . |
| 4 | How , indeed , can someone who does not speak English do that ? |
| 5 | My advice to the hon. Gentleman 's constituents is not to listen to the advice of someone who does not pay the tax himself and who advises others not to pay . |
| 6 | Suspended in a harness against a spiralling screen , he asks a hypnotherapist to take away the pain of loving someone who does not love him : to detox him . |
| 7 | But it 's emotionally draining living here with someone who does not want to be here . ’ |
| 8 | How can we allow for the possibility that someone might request an opinion antagonistically , by picking on someone who does not want to speak ? |
| 9 | So why is a Catholic newspaper publicising someone who does not believe in a divine Christ ? |
| 10 | For example , you may be someone who does not enjoy the enforced camaraderie of office life . |
| 11 | I am not saying that someone who does not understand his faith has no faith . |
| 12 | Does he say of someone who does not have this character that he is ‘ not loyal ’ , in order to express lack of approval of him , or does he say that he is loyal , but seek to negate the usual valuational meaning of the word , by inserting some adverb like ‘ deplorably ’ before it ? |
| 13 | Indeed it may well be that the most powerful person is someone who does not have to resort to physical force at all . |
| 14 | For one 's frailties to be known by someone else , someone who does not add their voice to the clamour of internal judgement , is the first step back towards being able to view one 's predicament simultaneously with accuracy and equanimity . |
| 15 | Churchwarden at Middleton-St-George Christian Duff said : ‘ We will have to wait for someone who does not mind the possibility of having to move in five years time . ’ |
| 16 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 17 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 18 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 19 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 20 | In this case the innocent purchaser had agreed to buy a car from , as he later discovered , someone who did not own it , on terms that property in the car would pass to him upon payment of the price . |
| 21 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 22 | That paper was abstracted by someone who did not know Polish . |
| 23 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 24 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 25 | There was no point in talking about it to someone who did not know the personalities involved and could not appreciate the circumstances . |
| 26 | Or her attacker may have been someone she did not expect . |
| 27 | First she got someone she did not know , then she got Marshall and finally she got Wickham . |
| 28 | Someone she did not know . |
| 29 | John 's grandmother , Betty Hind , lived there and she was quite famous in the dale as someone you did not trifle with . |
| 30 | ‘ We do have a spyhole in the door but because we were expecting someone we did not use it . |