Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 2 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 3 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 4 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 5 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 6 | I can not urge you strongly enough to resist the temptation of trying to work with such tapes . |
| 7 | and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 10 | Malik mispunched Malcolm over mid-on , and Lamb 's little legs could n't carry him fast enough to get underneath the chance . |
| 11 | " Fiver , I wo n't pretend that I did n't follow you up here to speak angrily . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't denigrate her now just to please me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 14 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 15 | ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory . |
| 16 | I ca n't put them down there to begin with , I think they all draw up |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , I did n't get you here just to take me in — ‘ |