Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa had not forgotten and she did not try to deny it . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State 's own consultant , Mr. Roy Stoner , the head of the Institute of Irrigation Studies at Southampton university , has not yet reported and we do not know what he will say . |
| 3 | Parliament was then dissolved and he did not enter fully upon his duties as clerk of the House of Lords until the assembly of the Short Parliament in April 1640 . |
| 4 | The numbers coming to meetings can vary from 4 to 24 which is uncomfortable if a speaker is booked and I do not know how many will come . |
| 5 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 6 | I was as surprised as he was at what time had revealed but I did not join in when his boyish enthusiasm took hold . |
| 7 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tells one that an error has been made but it does not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 8 | Receivers however always want to sell without giving any warranties and indemnities because their own knowledge of the business is limited and they do not want any continuing involvement with the buyer . |
| 9 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 10 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 11 | His eyes were closed and he did not move when they reached him . |
| 12 | In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose : his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli . |
| 13 | We all agree that cuts are needed but we do not know how to get them . ’ |
| 14 | We do not know which , if any , funds are affected and we do not know whether there has been an over valuation or an under valuation . ’ |
| 15 | The doors were locked and she did not go out . |
| 16 | Many teachers from the south of Nigeria were employed and they do not speak good Hausa . |
| 17 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 18 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 19 | Hilda 's jaw was firmly set and she did not open her mouth . |
| 20 | Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her . |
| 21 | But they are interrupted and they do not bother to ask the question again during the whole weekend . |
| 22 | Local priest Fr Dermot Britton said he understood the remains of an altar had been found but he did not think it necessary to talk to his congregation about the issue of Black Magic . |
| 23 | Rab felt bagged by what beer he had already drank and he did not like the nickname . |
| 24 | When siskins had their breast feathers temporarily covered , the speed of their flight increased and they did not glide at all . |
| 25 | The Spanish catalogue ( Museo del Prado , Pta 2500 ) is greatly superior to the Italian one ( Electa Napoli ) ; it is better edited and better printed and it does not illustrate Sgarbi 's croute . |
| 26 | There are other personalities involved and I do not want to hurt anybody . |
| 27 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 28 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 29 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 30 | He explained his predicament to the librarian but was told that the book was due to be pulped and it did not matter that he was the author . |