Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cold light of the morning after , she did not think she even fancied him , could hardly bring what he looked like into focus , she had gone briefly crazy that was all , gone native . |
| 2 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 4 | And although my department and British Rail had produced a joint report , this did not mean we automatically accepted BR 's views . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 6 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 7 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 8 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 9 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 10 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 11 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 12 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 13 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 14 | He neither leered nor lunged , he did not pinch her neither did he make a sudden and late demand for hot water and a brandy to his bedroom . |
| 15 | ‘ I did not call you here to discuss the offices . ’ |
| 16 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 17 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 18 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 19 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not think you even realise the danger you walk towards so willingly . ’ |
| 21 | Do not forget you also have a responsibility to treat the case properly , all I say is that the 4 oz syndrome is no longer the answer . |
| 22 | The rangers ' knowledge of the areas is extensive and they can identify most of the wildlife in the area — indeed if they see a new plant or insect which they do not recognise they normally check through their reference library when they get back to base to find out what it is . |
| 23 | We do not believe he just wandered up there and lay down to die . |
| 24 | Do not let them quite forget Momma and Papa if possible . |
| 25 | I might have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would draw the attention of the House to his views on the two new clauses , but I do not recall him even mentioning them . |
| 26 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 27 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 28 | Being a lesbian requires some shifting away from sexual conformity , but this does not mean we necessarily question other ‘ sexual norms ’ . |
| 29 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 30 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |