Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Premier John Major has said he will not sack his chancellor before the Spring Budget its is very likely he will be forced to dismiss him soon after . |
| 2 | Recognizing that authoritarians did not phrase their bigotry in unqualified statements , Adorno et al . |
| 3 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 4 | US opposition to the terms of the agreement , which imposed restrictions on the free movement of UN personnel in Iraq and obliged the use of Iraqi rather UN facilities , was reportedly neutralized after the UK and France indicated that they would not lend their support . |
| 5 | I do n't know , ’ replied Tess , who could not swallow her food . |
| 6 | The Allies modified their strategy , as readers will see in chapter 11 , while the Germans — satisfied they had repulsed a possible invasion attempt — did not modify their posture defending major ports and paid the price in defeat at Normandy . |
| 7 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 8 | Sergt. Peter Woodhouse of the Liverpool Police … she told the police that she did not think her husband was carrying out a strictly honest business . |
| 9 | I did my best to reassure her that I would not think her stupid , no matter what her problem . |
| 10 | But he did not think her condition critical . |
| 11 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 12 | She was desperate to ensure that Miss Mulliver should not think her irresponsible . |
| 13 | For example , she was deeply opposed to opening in Manchester , as she did not think her type of customer lived there , but preferred to be associated with the older university towns or cathedral cities such as Bath or Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Bernard refused her offer at first ; he did not think her English was fluent enough . |
| 15 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 16 | The Cambridge philosopher of religion on the board refused to vote for Ramsey for he did not think his work up to standard — the Cambridge philosophers never forgave the ‘ irrationality ’ which was a streak in his first and most original book . |
| 17 | Hoomey , for a moment or two , was tempted to say , ‘ Come back with me and we 'll watch the soccer replay on the box , ’ but he did not think his mother would approve of Nails — not if she knew . |
| 18 | ‘ We do not think his mental state will deteriorate immediately without medication , but we would obviously be anxious to have him back . ’ |
| 19 | Although he was engaged in a heated discussion with a journalist about the way the tour of Korea had been reported , it is unlikely that he would have said anything that he did not think his employer , the Princess of Wales , wanted known . |
| 20 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 21 | The marketing man on the other hand is full of enthusiasm for this latest onslaught on the market and most certainly does not think his new " baby " is at all routine . |
| 22 | I do not think his remarks later in his judgment detract from this finding . |
| 23 | Do not think your house is a hide-out it is a telephone |
| 24 | Do not think your future is yours it waits upon a telephone |
| 25 | Do not think your thoughts are your own thoughts they are the toys of the telephone |
| 26 | I do not think your God |
| 27 | I have upon my shoulders so many cares as a landlady that I feel bowed down whereas , and I do not think my memory faults me , I was freer as a maid . |
| 28 | I honestly do not think my child is encouraged in any way , possibly because his life is short … to take charge of his life and I think this might be giving him an unspoken message that you do n't count . |
| 29 | For indeed I can not think my fault so great in this matter that was a point of conscience with me as to stand in need of your forgiveness . |
| 30 | I did not think my remarks were particularly snide ; I thought they were straightforward and factual . |