Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months ' jail for a burglary he did not commit . |
| 2 | It just soured the atmosphere of the rehearsal , and left Michael Banks looking pained , like some huge animal , beaten for a transgression he does not understand . |
| 3 | As she had said the pot was a present she did not stop the woman gift-wrapping it in lavish style . |
| 4 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 5 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 6 | Like elderly kiddies at a play they did not understand yet knew to be important , they regarded her as she stood behind the gate . |
| 7 | But as a pensioner she did not think much of his performance in the Commons yesterday . |
| 8 | ‘ … to be on the Riviera without a motor car is a condition we do not care to imagine ’ , reported Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 9 | His fellow bishops addressed him as ‘ lord ’ ( a compliment he did not reciprocate ) . |
| 10 | When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map . |
| 11 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 12 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 13 | As a result it does not regard human action as a response or reaction to the system . |
| 14 | Paul the apostle taught that Christian love ‘ never fails ’ , and as a result he does not recommend widows or widowers to remarry . |
| 15 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 16 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 17 | He chuckled , pretending to a lightness he did not feel . |
| 18 | He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit . |
| 19 | However , there are still many who feel that Beattie is the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice and that he has served almost 20 years for a crime he did not commit . |
| 20 | Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman . |
| 21 | Thank you for doing a talk I did not feel up to . |
| 22 | She said , with a flippancy she did not feel , ‘ Are you thinking in terms of hours , perhaps ? |
| 23 | If there is a rule he does not like , he will form a exception . |
| 24 | Though it 's a wonder she did not spot the writing on the wall . |
| 25 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 26 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 27 | It is a pity they did not emerge from their hiding place in time for the 40-year anniversary reunions of the 49/50/51 groups , but they are partially relevant to the ‘ 52s next year . |
| 28 | A pity they did not have TV to show us Christmas cattle grazing the Alpine pastures . |
| 29 | Such a pity he does not mention Charlotte 's ghost . ’ |
| 30 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |