Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not think you sleep in the hand of God you sleep in the mouthpiece of a telephone |
| 2 | I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings . |
| 3 | Thinking that the police were arresting the wrong man , he attempted to attract the arresting policeman 's attention , and seized his arm for this purpose , since he could not make himself heard over the hubbub . |
| 4 | Knowing about methods of preventing pregnancy does not make you go to the doctor or the clinic and ask for them . |
| 5 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 6 | We would also not want them to fall into the hands of children . ’ |
| 7 | They do not want it diminished by the Bill . |
| 8 | Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation . |
| 9 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 10 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 11 | Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move in the marital bed . |
| 12 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 13 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 14 | I do not need anyone to rub in the truth that , yes , I too dwell heavily suspended above traffic snarl , pavement noises , an eel-and-pie shop , a tobacconist 's and a hardware store . |
| 15 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 16 | I did not know what to do with the child . ’ |
| 17 | Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts . |
| 18 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 19 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 20 | Modi 's friends did not know what to make of the romance . |
| 21 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 22 | Mr Fordy said : ‘ Our concern is not to catch them going over the bridge but to stop them going over the bridge . ’ |
| 23 | She frowned , not wanting anything to intrude on the peacefulness . |
| 24 | An unsporting Stratford Herald critic , leaving Shakespeare country for a night out in Coventry , could not bring himself to join in the fun . |
| 25 | ‘ The idea is to save as much as you can and not let it go to the government . |
| 26 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 27 | I , I er , you would not expect me to continue with the euphoria which you were trying to create earlier , and er , I have to say that I suppose that you would n't er , be proposing any different budget to this would you , in the circumstances that you 've got . |
| 28 | It does not matter what happens to the public reputation of John Donne . |
| 29 | If , however , an ES can ‘ capture ’ the expertise , it does not matter what happens to the expert ; the maintenance staff can consult the ES . |
| 30 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |