Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beech woods , especially , have little undergrowth , in which case they do not hold large bird populations and are often too young to support hole-nesting species such as woodpeckers . |
| 2 | Cotton weavers hardly existed before the 1770s , during which decade they do not seem to have been able to command wages above the low norm of weavers in general , for although on some types of cloth as much as 12s ( 60p ) could be earned , the average , like that of bleachers and dyers , seems to have been around 7s ( 35p ) . |
| 3 | Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed . |
| 4 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 5 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 6 | A complicated thing is one whose existence we do not feel inclined to take for granted , because it is too " improbable " . |
| 7 | Tuami and his people have escaped from the perceived menace of Neanderthal man , whose humanity they do not recognise . |
| 8 | In a Christian context this appeal is to Christ ; in a pre-Christian context they could be a pagan 's appeal , to a forerunner of Christ , to a Saviour whose nature he did not know . |
| 9 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 10 | Bees — the bumble and the honey — and butterflies — red admirals and small , delicate blue ones whose name I did not know — tilted at each other in the warm summer air . |
| 11 | I was born in 1948 in Carlisle , the daughter of an unmarried working mother and a father whose name I do not know . |
| 12 | We had gone through Mullinavat and came to a village whose name I do not know — if it ever had one . |
| 13 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 14 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 15 | He spotted Amaranth Wilikins drinking champagne with Charles Harvey and a second man whose name he did not know . |
| 16 | I accept of course that the police officers investigating on behalf of the Hampshire Constabulary , whose rank I do not know , and the Principal Crown Prosecutor thought they had seized sufficient documents or might acquire others independently . |
| 17 | But then she scolded herself — who was better with children , even foreign children , whose language he did not speak , than Ferdinando ? |
| 18 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |
| 19 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 20 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 21 | He is an old man who Mr Browning met in the burning streets of Florence last month half out of his wits and with nowhere to go his wife having thrown him out for what reason I do not know . |
| 22 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 23 | The directors are probably used to the supernatural events that happen from time to time ; the very fact that the building has connections with the railways has possibly something to do with the old railwayman but in what context I do not know . |
| 24 | I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ . |