Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ wrote Lt Col Stewart . |
| 2 | ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ concluded Lt Col Stewart 's statement . |
| 3 | Lt Col Stewart 's statement concluded : ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found . ’ |
| 4 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 5 | The prince is given the freedom of the garden if only he does not kiss the fairy . |
| 6 | If only he did not love Madeleine so totally , so hopelessly , he told himself as he drove down Oxford Street towards Marble Arch . |
| 7 | This was laid down in Allhusen v Whittell [ 1867 ] LR 4 Eq 295 ) but the rule is often excluded in wills and if so it does not apply . |
| 8 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 9 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 10 | The advantage here is that your opponent ca n't really watch you because then he does not see the ball . |
| 11 | The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas . |
| 12 | Secondly , under the new Act , tenants in council property are granted security of tenure , whereas previously they did not have this protection . |
| 13 | That is on the right lines , of course , since certainly we do not suppose that e would have occurred even if either cc or e itself did not . |
| 14 | For tenthly he does not get in touch for several days . |
| 15 | He claimed that this amount did have significant effects on the person 's capacity to remember ( though presumably it did not cause them to remember their past experiences as yeast cells ! ) . |
| 16 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 17 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
| 18 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 19 | This surprised her , for generally she did not like dogs . |
| 20 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
| 21 | Though here we do not intend this as anything more than a thought-provoking remark we shall see , in connection with the interview method particularly , how much of the technical apparatus of methods requires conceptions about the nature of social encounters . |
| 22 | As yet we do not have details on exact numbers , but when I do get more information , I will be back in touch . |
| 23 | Muon catalysed fusion may be only one miracle short of practical realisation , but as yet we do not know where that miracle will come from , nor even whether it exists . |
| 24 | This is better for the male , too , and he may actually inform the female in some way that she is a secondary female , but as yet we do not know how . |
| 25 | The action seemed to break her train of thought , for afterwards she did not resume speaking , seemed to forget she had been speaking and sat waiting passively . |