Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
| 2 | Oh I can I do n't carry two cups I ca , dare n't carry a cup and saucer |
| 3 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 4 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 5 | I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods . |
| 6 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 7 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 8 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 9 | I do not want any criticisms that we may have of some home owners or some trends to detract from that important fact . |
| 10 | But I do not seduce twenty-four-year-old virgins every other day , Caroline … ’ |
| 11 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 12 | I do not think these objections are very serious . |
| 13 | I do not intend these figures to be taken as strictly accurate estimates , clearly they ca n't be . |
| 14 | I do not love econometric models that much ; I just take note of them . |
| 15 | I do not suppose most farmers would hang on that long . |
| 16 | We were reminded that before he became party leader , Neil Kinnock had said , in relation to Peter Tatchell , ‘ I am not in favour of witch-hunts but I do not mistake bloody witches for fairies . ’ |
| 17 | I do not read these passages as stating that an unlawful demand which is enforceable is per se sufficient to found recovery . |
| 18 | They were written during the thirties , but much of it would still be up to date — after all , I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly . |
| 19 | I do not propose future reductions in the light of the disintegration of the Soviet Union , and given the continuing instability in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not trust these doctors and all these pills . |
| 21 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 22 | Still , I do not believe these scenes of cruelty are there to titillate or entertain . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not kidnap young females , even for financial reward , and also , if you were to disappear without trace , it would be years , I suspect , before my mother had her home to herself . |
| 24 | As will become clear , I do not see these questions as independent of each other , but I think it is helpful to try and consider them separately as well as in interaction . |
| 25 | Normally , I do not call hon. Members after Front Benchers , but I shall make an exception today . |
| 26 | Vectors that I can represent as arrows on a sheet of paper will be two dimensional , that is to say they will be combinations of just two independent basic vectors ( 1 and 2 in my example , or " across " and " up " in words ; I do not need further vectors " down " and " backwards ' since I can regard these as " up " and " across ' with negative coefficients . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not need those drugs , I am not insane . |
| 28 | p.56 ) ; ‘ I do not like verbal explanations . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not follow these sophistries , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 30 | I do not have five roubles , therefore I can not go to the loo . |