Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 2 | He dues not want it more earnestly than I do . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 4 | Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended . |
| 5 | ‘ In that case I will not keep you any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 6 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 7 | But even the best brakes in the world will not stop you as quickly as hitting something … |
| 8 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 9 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 10 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
| 11 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 12 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 13 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |
| 14 | He says a child with meningitis could need urgent treatment and may not get it fast enough because its too far . |
| 15 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 16 | The widget-making company may increase the amount it pays the remaining workers ; it may reduce the price of widgets ( or not increase it as fast as prices in general rise ) ; and it may be able to retain some of the saving as increased profits . |
| 17 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 18 | So I hope they 're not gon na say we do n't want you on there cos of wildlife stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 20 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
| 21 | But I idiotically thought I could see Antoinette and Piers looking rather amused and I was sure it was because they felt I did n't know him as well as I 'd said . |
| 22 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 23 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 24 | ‘ He does n't know you very well if he thinks that , ’ she said faintly . |
| 25 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 26 | So I , what I want to do now , and I have do eve take time to do it , I ca n't do it just now when you 're here . |
| 27 | This way , she 'll begin to understand the basics of sharing , although she wo n't do it very willingly until she 's around 2½ to three years old . |
| 28 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 29 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
| 30 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |