Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And say that their wages will not them maintain . ’ |
| 2 | Then next for the Spinner we shall ensue , We 'll make them spin three pound instead of two ; When they bring home their work unto us , they complain , And say that their wages will not them maintain ; But if that an ounce of weight they do lack , Then for to bate threepence we will not be slack . |
| 3 | So why , if the bugs that the sneezing man spread about the bus were the cause of the illness , did not everyone get a cold ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did not someone think of pinning that on him after his fall ? |
| 5 | However , this might well be thought to overstate the case , and we must not ourselves draw too heavily upon selected examples . |
| 6 | That may seem perverse , given what we have just said about the current scene , especially since we do not ourselves believe that states are the only important actors in international relations . |
| 7 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 8 | Why did not I think of it before ? |
| 9 | Now the turps will not I think dissolve this varnish because this varnish is alcohol based varnish . |
| 10 | Hilaire Belloc would not I think have liked his eponymous monastery ; it is modern and spruce , with sacred literature in showcases and a monk sitting at a reception desk . |
| 11 | Or you might not I mean might not , you might not want |
| 12 | Yet can not I have the patience to look upon your wickedness with such a … |
| 13 | Do not I fill heaven and earth ? ’ |
| 14 | Do not I fill heaven and earth , if heaven and earth are words on my page ? |
| 15 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 16 | Although the bulk of Galileo 's scientific work was designed to strengthen the Copernican theory , Galileo did not himself devise a detailed astronomy , and seemed to follow the Aristotelians in their preference for circular orbits . |
| 17 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |
| 18 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 19 | He will not himself carry out the work but will invite works contractors to tender for packages of work within the project . |
| 20 | If the bankrupt can not himself prepare a proper statement of affairs , the official receiver may either employ someone at the expense of the estate to assist in its preparation ( r 6.63(1) ) or make an allowance out of the estate to a named person to assist the bankrupt in its preparation ( r 6.63(2) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 21 | The devoted husband did not himself go to Cumnor , but sent his cousin , Sir Thomas Blount , to investigate . |
| 22 | ‘ In general , the creditor does not himself go to the surety , or represent , or explain to the surety , the risk to be run . |
| 23 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |
| 24 | Marx did not himself create a systematic theory of the global system , though his work certainly guided Lenin and others in their attempts to construct a theory of imperialism . |
| 25 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 26 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 27 | The fact that the defendant might not himself have called the state of affairs an obstruction is , to my mind , immaterial . |
| 28 | You will already know that Henry Moore does not himself chip away at his piece of stone … ’ |
| 29 | This attitude of shared acceptance of rules is to be contrasted with that of an observer who records ab extra the fact that a social group accepts such rules but does not himself accept them . |
| 30 | The justice of the peace , on the other hand , did not himself try cases . |