Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WildMr Weston said : ‘ We are appealing to members of the public who can give them a good home to adopt them so we do not have to put them down . ’ |
| 2 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not respond to one part of his question . |
| 4 | There is a great gulf between ‘ popular culture ’ ( excuse me if I do not try to define the term ) and contemporary art . |
| 5 | After his election , he went to the ‘ Milanese ’ church of San Carlo Borromeo and quite openly wept ( why not ? we used to pray for the ‘ gift of tears ’ ) as he quoted the words of Jesus to Peter : ‘ When you were young , you girded yourself and walked where you would ; but when you are old , you will stretch out your hands , and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go ’ ( John 21.18 ) . |
| 6 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |
| 7 | ‘ I said I would kill you if you did not tell me , ’ Jotan said coolly . |
| 8 | Indeed , I would not desire you if you did not have a mind and a spirit . |
| 9 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 10 | The Yek offend you because we do not think you are human . |
| 11 | I would tell Miss if I was you because I do not like to see |
| 12 | I do not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know that it and because no lie comes from that truth . |
| 13 | There are beds in warehouses , but many young people will not use them because they do not want to sleep next to someone who is mentally ill or loused up or alcoholic . |
| 14 | Many people stare good opportunities in the face but are unable to recognise them because they do not know enough about the field . |
| 15 | Jews despised and hated Gentiles : despised them because they did not belong to the elect ; and hated them because they lorded it over God 's chosen people . |
| 16 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 17 | In a study by Taylor of library guides in London polytechnic libraries she found that the users often did not read them because they did not know they were there . |
| 18 | He said many people who were given council houses subsequently lost them because they did not know how to pay the rent and cope with bills . |
| 19 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you . |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever they do will personally sadden me because I do not want to see my constituency chopped up , ’ he said . |
| 22 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't need to get to know her if you do not wish to . |
| 24 | Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys , her food etc . |
| 25 | Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys , her food etc . |
| 26 | In her viva her examiner asks her if she does not think that ‘ dipthongisation in fourteenth century Kentish may have been optional ’ , and her immediate reaction is that ‘ The question made no sense at all ’ . |
| 27 | They would be angry with her if she did not go . |
| 28 | Cook told her if she did not do what he said he would kill her . |
| 29 | I asked her if she did not feel deprived , having never experienced school life . |
| 30 | As for the proposals contained in ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ — the hon. Gentleman kindly sent me a copy — it will not surprise him if I do not agree with all of them . |