Example sentences of "and [verb] not [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your man is single and has n't given us any name apart from his father 's , I take it he 's unattached . |
| 2 | Ride along with it as philosophically as you can , and try not to take your own hurt feelings or sense of irritation out on your mother-in-law , as this will only lead to unhappiness for you all . |
| 3 | And try not to drop it this time , please . |
| 4 | ‘ Serve the Captain first — and do n't give me any , you know it 's bad for me , not more than a taste , one slice — that 's enough ! |
| 5 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about hunting and fur-trading helping to preserve the primitive economies and lifestyles of Eskimos and Bantu bloody tribesmen or whatever . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And do n't give me any crap about a man 's got ta do what a man 's got ta do . |
| 7 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 8 | Beckoning over a young man , whose look of boredom miraculously changed to one of interest when he saw Ellie , the receptionist gave a wry smile before instructing , ‘ If you 'll give him your car keys , he 'll park it for you and take your luggage up to your room — and do n't give him more than your car keys , ’ she added with friendly warning . |
| 9 | Now go on and coop up the fowls and do n't bother me any more with your obstinacy . ’ |
| 10 | This is what the reader expects , and if you want to write a book in which this unequivocally does not happen then you probably want to write a straight novel , so off you go and do n't bother us any more . |
| 11 | ‘ And do n't call me that . |
| 12 | And do n't put them all on there ! |
| 13 | They legislate from a distance and do n't trust their own children to the state sector . |
| 14 | It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances . |
| 15 | She said nothing , but she met his gaze fully and did not veil her own . |
| 16 | He was , however , extremely discreet and did not tell us any results of the Cabinet soundings in detail . |
| 17 | Lord Templeman maintained that valuers were paid , professional men who knew that 90 per cent of house-buyers relied on mortgage valuations and did not commission their own surveys . |
| 18 | He was a strange , rather lonely man with a lonely job that was highly pressured and did n't leave him any time to make friends or indulge in theatre gossip . |
| 19 | I suggest she opened the window for someone else , and did n't expect her own fingerprints to be taken . |
| 20 | We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space . |
| 21 | Unfortunately it kept to the tops of the trees and did n't give me any chance of pictures . |
| 22 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 23 | and er and did n't realize it all the time I was wondering how it was in three , an hour and three quarters , two hours and inside was still er raw , an hour and |
| 24 | oh , oh dear oh She said that one , one lady did a lot of recording and then played it back and listened to herself and did n't like her own voice so she wiped it all off and handed it in . |
| 25 | Wharfe is omitted from mention in official guides to the district and does n't mind it all . |
| 26 | CIA might lend you one — or some big company that 's recently completed a successful takeover and does n't need it any more . ’ |
| 27 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |