Example sentences of "certainly do [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I most certainly did not knock it over myself ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
2 | She certainly did not blend it with the crowd . |
3 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
4 | Ludens was a historian , but certainly did not regard himself as a Jewish historian . |
5 | His team certainly did not help themselves by bowling erratically ( 19 wides ) against a home line-up weakened by the loss , among others , of Nadeem Shahid , Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin . |
6 | Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing . |
7 | I certainly did n't expect her to actually complain about the LP she 's supposedly promoting . |
8 | And I certainly did n't show them to anyone else ! |
9 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
10 | Cos I , I certainly did n't say nothing to her . |
11 | I certainly did n't find it with that fucking bitch . ’ |
12 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
13 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
14 | He certainly did n't take it as any evidence of preferment . |
15 | Well then I certainly did n't see anybody in there looking like that . |
16 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
17 | I 'm not saying it 's hard work , like working on a farm , but they certainly do n't give everything to you on a silver platter , ’ she added as her name was called for yet another fitting . |