Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you do not want to add a ceiling covering , simply paint the surface with white , or very pale emulsion to reflect as much light as possible . |
| 2 | As a customer , reading the label will help you decide whether to buy a product — that is , whether it suits your needs ( for example , someone on a diet might not want to buy a product containing a lot of sugar ) . |
| 3 | You do not need to see a lawyer to complete the form , but advice on any aspect of your LIVING WILL can be obtained from The Terrence Higgins Trust Advice Centre and Legal Line or the Immunity Legal Centre . |
| 4 | The purchase of this equipment also ensured that we did not need to convert a room to provide a separate Archive Library in future building development . |
| 5 | In passing through Inverness , do not grudge to halt a night to visit the islands : if the night is moonlit , revisit the scene , and see it under the mellow beams . |
| 6 | Most City analysts do not expect to see a dividend paid before 1992 and the less optimistic believe Lowndes will have to refinance itself again next year . |
| 7 | No , I mean they 're they 're not going to take a truck running over them . |
| 8 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 9 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 10 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 11 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 12 | She might not have had a daughter to sing them with but she could enjoy their soulfullness on her own . |
| 13 | As far as the second witness was concerned , the appeal court had reached the view that his new evidence would not have had a material bearing on the jury 's assessment of Leighton 's credibility . |
| 14 | I 'm not giving Garry a chance to skip off again . ’ |
| 15 | Even the Japanese do not try to make a profit selling Rolls-Royce equivalents at 15,000 . |
| 16 | ‘ Her shoulders are not dipped suggesting a refusal to adopt a submissive role , ’ says psychologist Dr Peter Trower . |
| 17 | That we 're not fighting to save a hospital to go Trust . |
| 18 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |
| 19 | An orthodox man is not allowed to hear a woman singing as this is felt to be seductive . |
| 20 | In the leader column last week , on the same day Young Group 's shares were suspended , the newspaper felt sufficiently confident of Mr Young 's expertise to write : ‘ He is a man who has until recently made a great success of his business and it would be sad for the North-East if he did not continue to have a part to play . ’ |
| 21 | Erm right purpose of the discussions , I do n't call them interviews er because it 's a self employed position and er you know we 're not offering quote a job unquote . |
| 22 | Left : You do n't need to spend a fortune to get fresh ! |
| 23 | There she might find someone who did n't mind employing a traveller to clean out a stable or a pig-sty , or perhaps a kindly old woman might give her a crust . |
| 24 | ‘ I just do n't like to see a woman pushed out like that , ’ she told a television reporter , almost tearfully . |
| 25 | Did n't like have a finale did it ? |
| 26 | She thought that she looked good , and she felt bloody good , and she was n't going to let a telephone call from the bank manager interfere with her seldom-found excitement . |
| 27 | Luke Calder was n't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't happen to know a man called Firmead , do you ? ’ he said . |
| 29 | You do n't have to spend a fortune to give your family tasty , healthy meals . |
| 30 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |