Example sentences of "not do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why not do it at 'ome ? ’ |
| 2 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 3 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 4 | the french could not do it . |
| 5 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 6 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 7 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 8 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 9 | They told her over and over again that she must not do it , but she could n't help it . |
| 10 | Then , curled up in bed that night , she told Fenna that she must not do it anymore , she must not wander off , he must not let her . |
| 11 | ‘ You must not do it , Jamie , we 'll be in trouble with Colonel James , I 've told all you boys a thousand times . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll perhaps not do it again , ’ the sergeant murmured , and received the look that Miss Williams habitually bent on a child who was riding carelessly . |
| 13 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 14 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 15 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 16 | ‘ I can not do it , ’ Alida Thorne said , desperately . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not do it , and there is an end . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I wish you would not do it , ’ said Isabel Lavender , descending the stairs . |
| 19 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |
| 20 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 21 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
| 22 | Not only could I not do it but the effort was so excruciating that I opened my mouth to scream and could n't breathe enough for that either . |
| 23 | But that , in effect , means changing his character , and at the age of 50 he can not do it : the mould is set . |
| 24 | But they have told me they did not do it , ’ Mr Hermens added . |
| 25 | ‘ Why not do it yourself ? ’ |
| 26 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 27 | He did not do it ! |
| 28 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 29 | We should not do it for our sex . |
| 30 | We can not do it for ourselves , it is gift and grace — God acting on and in us to create a new willingness to see with his eyes , think with his mind , adopt his values and attitudes ( 1 Cor. |