Example sentences of "do not [verb] anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 2 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 3 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 4 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 5 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 6 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 7 | Statements to the effect that a particular programme has had an increase in funding do not say anything about the quality of the service offered . |
| 8 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think anything of the kind , but you have n't paid me . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 11 | I do n't do anything in the morning you know . |
| 12 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't expect anything of the sort . |
| 14 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 15 | No , you do n't get , you do n't get anything for the membership ! |
| 16 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 17 | Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't know anything about the card game in Room 42 at the Regal Arms , do you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the book , I do n't even think he 'd started writing it . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know anything about ward work , I do n't know anything about the forms , I do n't know anything Well obviously you get R T |
| 22 | I do n't know anything about the history of Nice because … ’ |
| 23 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 24 | I do n't know anything about the rights of that , neither . |
| 25 | ‘ And I suppose you do n't know anything about the woman either ? ’ |
| 26 | People do n't know anything about the things that they 're not talking about , you 've had no experience of it , you do n't know , you know of the bad hairpieces and wigs |
| 27 | Erm , but if it 's I do n't know anything about the weather , so I could n't look at that and analyse it in any way . |
| 28 | erm I do n't know anything about the publicity people , but I thought that had been decided at the , is that right ? |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know anything of the sort . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Most later weights are much lighter , the colours are muddier and they do n't have anything like the control over the spacing of the canes . ’ |