Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [vb infin] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 2 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 3 | In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion … |
| 4 | So many of our dreams , however , are mixtures of fact and fantasy that I do not feel any great reliance can be placed on what seem to be insights into our former lives when we are asleep . |
| 5 | If there is an important and difficult question of law , however , I do not anticipate that senior judges will either feel ‘ demeaned ’ or take umbrage at the possibility of the courts looking at the question again on fuller argument . |
| 6 | I do not blame those involved in the development corporation , particularly the five council members who are in a minority on the board . |
| 7 | Certainly , I do not pretend any scholarly disinterest with this book . |
| 8 | I do not possess any pornographic publications or pictures of couples in lubricious postures , though I am aware that they exist to an ever more proliferating degree , and I have seen these things in Robert 's room and in my agent 's office . |
| 9 | I do not understand any accurate meaning that can be ascribed to such an expression as " quasi-arbitrator " . |
| 10 | I must add here that I do not use any ready-made greens as I prefer to mix my own colours : azo yellow light , cadmium yellow medium , and titanium white mixed with my blues for this , with the addition of burnt sienna , yellow ochre and Vandyke brown for the earth colours . |
| 11 | I do not use any anti-fungus agents ; the occasional fungused eggs are removed as required . |
| 12 | I do not accept that recent acquisitions of regional brewers and closures of breweries are the result of the beer orders . |
| 13 | ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation . |
| 14 | I do not know this vast army of women who disintegrate at menopause , nor the hordes who scrabble blindly for their lost youth . |
| 15 | I do not know any other way to express it . |
| 16 | However , I do not know any other human being who believes this to be possible in principle . |
| 17 | I do not know any other politician or statesman who would have acted with such speedy decision without stopping to think of the possible consequences to himself or what people might think about his intervention on behalf of an alleged terrorist . |
| 18 | I do not know any social class which lives so completely without ideas of any kind … |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , I do not believe that existential propositions , in particular those intended to transmit ontological claims , can be satisfactorily replaced by the relevant quantified paraphrases , in the manner suggested . |
| 20 | I know those offices in Northumberland Avenue — I have been involved in submitting evidence to two separate Royal Commissions there — and I do not believe this proposed tour of inspection is going to be a very joyous occasion . |
| 21 | I do not find this convincing at all . " |
| 22 | I would also stress that I do not claim any special archival expertise . |
| 23 | I do not consider this ethical in treatment , as I believe that everyone should be fully cognizant of what is happening at each and every stage . |
| 24 | Although I was born at Sleetburn further up the dale , I came here when I was three years old , so I do not recall any other place as home . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I do not see many head blows . |
| 26 | I do not see any relevant distinction between the provision of a structural survey at the request of a borrower applying for a further advance and the provision of a house buyers ' report in the same circumstances . |
| 27 | I do not see any clear trace that Ben Sira had read Greek books , and I do not believe that he needed the Iliad to learn that men " sprout and fade like leaves of a tree " ( 14.18 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Being deputy leader I do not have any complex security arr-ange-ments . |
| 29 | Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions . |
| 30 | I did not take any banned substance and will continue to try and clear my name and resume my athletics career which was just beginning to flourish . ’ |