Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ?
2 The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up .
3 But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features .
4 That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least .
5 Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production .
6 He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact .
7 If mail did not reach them by the time of their discharge from care , it was not intentional .
8 It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place .
9 Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence .
10 However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’
11 Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest .
12 She certainly did not blend it with the crowd .
13 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
14 He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did .
15 They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures .
16 He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing .
17 She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow .
18 But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment .
19 Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution .
20 But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers .
21 ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar .
22 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
23 This , of course , did not affect me at the time !
24 Jean-Claude must have been planning it since we arrived , but he did not mention it until the day before .
25 It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect .
26 Since then , negatively , he did not number them among the twelve , it may be held to have been his intention not to do so .
27 But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher .
28 She did not share Baldwin 's intellectual or aesthetic tastes , and she did not accompany him on the long walks which were a staple part of his recreation in Worcestershire or at Aix .
29 Unfortunately , the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point .
30 The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ;
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