Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear sir , you must not tell me what I do or do not mean . |
| 2 | Previous to my arrival in Sydney , I was at a stage of uncertainty as to what I did and did not believe . |
| 3 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 4 | These are titles I cherish and do not intend to give up easily . |
| 5 | ‘ There are men here who remember me , who owe me favours and do not forget . ’ |
| 6 | And though embellished with a couple of right hands which sought but did not destroy , it was the work of a crushing left hook-cum-uppercut that was ripped from the top shelf of Razor 's own weapon room . |
| 7 | All Operational , Intelligence and Weapon Development policy was made the responsibility of the Central Staff , which encompassed but did not unify the Naval , General , and Air Staffs . |
| 8 | In this case , " application of the GPC rules " is a cognitive process , and we can determine the extent to which skilled readers use this process by experiments that manipulate words which do and do not obey the rules . |
| 9 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 10 | Either nothing happened that did not happen on CNN , or , more likely , much that happened stayed under wraps . |
| 11 | Pascal captures the negative side when he writes , ‘ Doubt then is an unhappy state , but there is an indispensable duty to seek in doubt , and thus anyone who doubts and does not seek is at once unhappy and in the wrong . ’ |
| 12 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 13 | For secret reasons she acknowledged but did not understand , she felt bitterly offended . |
| 14 | And as the wealth increases in absolute terms even the poorer classes , those who feed but do not run the machine , begin to improve their social conditions and economic power . |
| 15 | She laughed and did not reply , staring out at the trees . |
| 16 | She thought but did not speak : That word is meaningless now . |
| 17 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 18 | And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction . |
| 19 | Your doctor would send you an appointment , but if you move or do not hear , please contact your doctor or clinic and arrange for a further smear . |
| 20 | It borders upon the tautological to focus upon the relationships between unhealthful reproductive patterns and the demographic characteristics of women who do or do not use contraceptives . |
| 21 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 22 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 23 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 24 | By contrast , the difference between those who did and did not watch BBC-TV widened : so the effect of television viewing rose from 12 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 20 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 25 | Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened . |
| 26 | ‘ What you do or do not do is no concern of mine — ’ |
| 27 | It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote . |
| 28 | And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction . |
| 29 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 30 | She wanted and did not want to be there , fearing that her very presence would create complications as if they were contagious , but also that if she were not there , there would be no one to control events and protect Carolyn . |