Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 2 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 3 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 4 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 5 | It was a very dangerous plan , and I did not really think it would work — but we had to try ! |
| 6 | ‘ Constanza and I did not really talk about Michel . |
| 7 | I plead for help , to you who caused my suffering , and you do not even bother to reply ! |
| 8 | The C.U.S.C. is a museum aimed at students and you do not even need to go along to see what they have as there is a catalogue at school . |
| 9 | And you do not yet know what else you are losing . ’ |
| 10 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 11 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 12 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 13 | Maggie was still screaming above her and she did not even notice until later that her own blood was added to the devastation of Maggie 's attic . |
| 14 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 15 | She did not know where he was now and she did not really care , but he had probably been the most influential person in her life : her handsome prince and Maggie 's father . |
| 16 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 17 | The girl whom he was to have married vanishes from the pages of history and we do not even know her name . |
| 18 | We currently lack network documentation for hardware and software , and we do not even have a schematic showing the network connections . |
| 19 | This can be an expensive way of producing local history studies — especially if a duplicate copy is made for the county record office — and we do not yet know how long video film can be stored before it deteriorates . |
| 20 | Furthermore , there have been suggestions that some types of support are effective for some types of stress but not others , and we do not yet know enough about the causal processes involved to be able to explain this ( Gottlieb , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | However , such letters receive no special security handling , and we do not therefore recommend these services when sending any letters for which you want cover for compensation . |
| 22 | We are conservers and preservers , maintaining homes and relationships , and we do not always welcome change . |
| 23 | There are many different ways in which speakers may exploit , in varying social functions , the resources of variation that are available to them , and we do not necessarily know beforehand what these are , how they interact , or what the limitations on possible variants may be . |
| 24 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 25 | Our own recording efforts were concentrated on species , and we did not usually attempt to record vegetation . |
| 26 | They recognized that a return to the Carolingian situation , in which , in theory at least , all free men were bound by oaths of loyalty to the crown , was an unrealistic aspiration ; and they did not even succeed in asserting their lordship over all French rear-vassals , on the lines suggested by Suger . |
| 27 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 28 | This is a further reason for considering such skills an essential part of the staff nurses ' role rather than as an added extra to be fitted in whenever possible : today 's staff nurses are the ward sisters of tomorrow , and they do not simply pick up teaching skills automatically when they are given a new job title . |
| 29 | Before and after , within a phenomenological time , separate experiences , not ontological objects , and they do not even separate experiences by number alone . |
| 30 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |