Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 2 | In any event for my part I do not think that such a limitation exists . |
| 3 | But for my part I do not think that this is a complete analysis . |
| 4 | Mr. Watkinson referred us to three other decided cases in support of the contrary view , but to my mind they do not assist him . |
| 5 | To excuse my ineptitude I did not enlighten him . |
| 6 | But since my revelation they do not listen to me . ’ |
| 7 | Like my father he did not suffer fools gladly , and he had an air of considerable authority which belied his great kindness . |
| 8 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In my judgment it does not require the constable making the request of the requirement to weigh up and balance competing considerations . |
| 10 | The beech woods , especially , have little undergrowth , in which case they do not hold large bird populations and are often too young to support hole-nesting species such as woodpeckers . |
| 11 | She thought often of his words , but in her heart she did not believe them . |
| 12 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 13 | And I feel that many solicitors do not do their job they do not explain fully to the purchaser what they are taking on . |
| 14 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 15 | Despite their name they do not sterilise but articles fully immersed in them , for 30 seconds or more , after cleaning , may be rendered free from harmful micro-organisms provided operational temperatures have been reached and are maintained . |
| 16 | To her chagrin he did not look hurt in the slightest . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 18 | Cotton weavers hardly existed before the 1770s , during which decade they do not seem to have been able to command wages above the low norm of weavers in general , for although on some types of cloth as much as 12s ( 60p ) could be earned , the average , like that of bleachers and dyers , seems to have been around 7s ( 35p ) . |
| 19 | What was the name of her feeling she did not know , but she was prepared to go on . |
| 20 | Before its commencement we did not know how the ENP would be received in the department or indeed whether the proposed scheme would turn out to be a workable one . |
| 21 | Blushed and took her hand she did not take it away . |
| 22 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 23 | Like all other patients in her situation she does not know when she will get out . |
| 24 | Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed . |
| 25 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 26 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 27 | A complicated thing is one whose existence we do not feel inclined to take for granted , because it is too " improbable " . |
| 28 | Tuami and his people have escaped from the perceived menace of Neanderthal man , whose humanity they do not recognise . |
| 29 | In a Christian context this appeal is to Christ ; in a pre-Christian context they could be a pagan 's appeal , to a forerunner of Christ , to a Saviour whose nature he did not know . |
| 30 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |