Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] do [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it , it wo n't suit everybody , you might not want , in my case I do n't particularly want to live with a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 3 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 4 | erm extrovert I do n't quite know about that |
| 5 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 7 | Out here , with the lost river running past my feet , learning the names of birds I do n't even know the names of in English , I feel good about us . |
| 8 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 9 | So I would have to warn Time , ‘ Be careful , some of the images I did n't actually take , my minder 's taking them . ’ |
| 10 | A dame I did n't even know . |
| 11 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 12 | Mummy I do n't really like those shoes . |
| 13 | Nothing criminal , of course ; even in her present slightly illogical and decidedly vengeful frame of mind she did n't seriously suspect Count Romano de Sciorto of criminal activity . |
| 14 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 15 | Inside the car you do n't even notice it . |
| 16 | Heidi we do n't really want to know . |
| 17 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 18 | But er communism and politics are like religion they do n't necessarily deliver the goods . |
| 19 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 20 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 21 | In practice they do not always turn out so much better , for a number of reasons . |
| 22 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 23 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 24 | There is no certain way of avoiding this difficulty when Yo is chosen arbitrarily ; but in practice it does not often arise . |
| 25 | Look for this boat it does n't even stop , blimey |
| 26 | I mean once we 're on the other side it does n't really matter |
| 27 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 28 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 29 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 30 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |