Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 2 | Many people feel guilty after the loss of a loved one — perhaps because of something they said or something they did not say . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to that good example of the special skills and capabilities that the British defence industry still has , and which I do not doubt will serve it well in future in both domestic and export markets . |
| 4 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 5 | It had by now become his habit to turn to Bobby Hunt for occasional assistance , with such items as the plane in the final tail-piece in Time Was Away and which he did not know how to draw . |
| 6 | The villa is very beautiful and large and it has been possible for myself and my baby and my husband to stay together which is a very great privilege and one I did not look to have extended to me . |
| 7 | There is a grey area for all of us , a philosophical no-man's-land between what we know and what we do not know . |
| 8 | The question is one of the proper interpretation of the words enacted by Parliament and it could be that the Act does what the committee thought was not practicable and what they did not intend to do . |
| 9 | What they knew , what they did n't know , and what they did not wish to know tied people in some terrible knots . |
| 10 | And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant . |
| 11 | And Pound had later to explain what he meant , and what he did not mean , by his endorsement of Lewis . |
| 12 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 13 | His host had darted across the room presumably to bring him a drink and as he looked around he saw other doors , other lights — so this spectacle which did not shock him nor dismay him but which he did not wish to be a part of , might not be the only play . |
| 14 | Although he might on one level enjoy his fame and success , his own tendency to withdraw from the world turned such fame into a kind of game which he was happy to play but which he did not take altogether seriously . |
| 15 | By contrast , Chile 's Ladeco , in which Iberia has a 35% stake but which it does not manage , is in the black . |
| 16 | The definition the CSD used for its survey was : ‘ organisations which have been set up or adopted by Departments and provided with funds to perform some function which the Government wish to have performed but which it did not wish to be the direct responsibility of a Minister or Department ’ . |
| 17 | But what they do not show is what teenage girls feel . |
| 18 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 19 | But what she did not know was what had happened to those interests — or to him — since Simon 's death , apart from the fact that Vitor had immediately retired from racing . |
| 20 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 21 | ‘ I always knew we could score from a set piece , but what I did not expect was to concede two from set-pieces , ’ reflected manager Nigel Best . |
| 22 | ‘ But what you do not know , what very few people know , is that there is more . |
| 23 | But anything he does not like , he criticises . |