Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 4 | It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer . |
| 5 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 6 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 7 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 8 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 9 | Mandy Merck says : ‘ To associate Bill Clinton with a known gay activist like myself can not do him vast favours in large parts of homophobic America . ’ |
| 10 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 11 | Churlish indeed the man who wishes his neighbour a Merry Christmas but does not give him tangible proof of this to put on his mantlepiece . |
| 12 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 13 | Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted . |
| 14 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 15 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 16 | Then , at Suez , Britain 's possession of the Bomb had not helped her one iota in swaying American Middle East policy . |
| 17 | Right now , you 're probably making guesses of your own and , listen , I 'm not giving you any help with those . |
| 18 | I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it . |
| 19 | he 's not caused us any hassle at all , er he 's been very helpful |
| 20 | One of their complaints against Corcyra is specially revealing : the Corcyreans , they say , ‘ do not pay us appropriate respect as their mother-city ’ . |
| 21 | He was , however , extremely discreet and did not tell us any results of the Cabinet soundings in detail . |
| 22 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 23 | Cathy did not cause me any trouble at first . |
| 24 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 25 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 26 | The US government 's five-year US$2,000 million Andean anti-drug aid programme [ see pp. 36889 ; 37243-44 ; 37451 ] suffered a setback on Sept. 27 when President Alberto Keinya Fujimori announced that he would not accept US military aid worth US$35,900,000 to combat drug trafficking . |
| 27 | Yet this lone , beautiful , and sensitive actress who openly espoused Ibsen and portrayed his bold , modern women did not find it easy living in late Victorian Britain . |
| 28 | Only because of that , and what they said in that totally shocked me , because erm , I , he had n't given me any feedback about how I was doing . |
| 29 | To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity . |
| 30 | I do n't want you two fighting over them that 's why , you know what you two are like |