Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er My Lords I do not see within this of amendments the answers that we want , I see two or three narrow misses . |
| 2 | Did he survive because he was essentially provincial , unable to compete with the main creators of his own day , disregarded because in their eyes he did not count for much anyway ? |
| 3 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 4 | As Johnson-Laird has pointed out we customarily understand and use words in context whose meanings we do not know in any exact sense : |
| 5 | The recent history of liberal response to urban deprivation as it affects groups like women is littered with the unmet commitments and unfulfilled promises of such initiatives : each highly circumscribed ; each mediated through the transitory commitment of part-time interlopers in communities in which they do not live , among women whose lives they do not share ; and all controlled elsewhere . |
| 6 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 7 | Medieval hierarchies survived into an epoch of industrial capitalism ; feudal military castes presided over national states and industrial societies whose needs they did not understand . |
| 8 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 9 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 10 | I knew he loved and needed me , but the fact that while I washed up , scrubbed , cleaned and tidied for us both he was making contact with people I had never met , would never meet , and whose names I did not know , formed a cloud over my days . |
| 11 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 12 | There was no desk , only a big bed someone had made up with whose sheets she did not know , an armchair and a table , a cupboard , a window through which the passing trains could be seen , tube trains and Metropolitan trains and the trains that went up to the Chilterns . |
| 13 | Harm , and serious harm is done to the memory of Pope John when one attributes to him attitudes he did not have . |
| 14 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 15 | People who knew the whole Guérigny family would be bound to stop him and ask him questions he did not want to face . |
| 16 | Unlike his brothers he did not seem able to get himself together ; wasted his time at university , married very young , came to London , did this job and that ; wrote a book that was noticed but made no money , then another , a jaunty and irreverent account of a journalist 's career in the provinces . |
| 17 | By reserving his rights he does not achieve a legal impasse , and indeed , if this is the goal , he should be advised to terminate the contract and re-negotiate it in the light of the new circumstances . |
| 18 | As Endill ate his plate of boiled potatoes he pondered on the afternoon ahead and was so involved in his thoughts he did not hear the boy sitting next to him speak . |
| 19 | Unlike some of his colleagues he did not allow his recreations , such as hunting , yachting , and golf , to interfere with his ministerial duties . |
| 20 | What circumstances he does not say . |
| 21 | Samples of European food and wine will be available in what quantities I do not know . |