Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We feel it is now right and proper that the debate is to be had and that our roots , our heritage and our future are defended on our terms and in our forums and not in the editorials of Sunday newspapers , and as for les people 's letters to the newspapers , and Kinnock and co saying to people , individual members , why should the Labour Party not trust you with the choice of your candidate , it is you who do the work to get them elected , who are they kidding ? |
| 2 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
| 3 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 4 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 5 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 6 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 7 | Cos I 've not seen it with the curtains |
| 8 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 9 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 10 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
| 11 | The quest for identifiable crime-prone personality types has included learning theorists as well as heredity theorists , psychoanalysts ( ‘ anti-social ’ or ‘ affectionless ’ personality theories ) , and studies not concerning themselves with the question of how such types come about . |
| 12 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
| 13 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |
| 14 | Before I try another trot down I remove the two old maggots from the hook and impale a single fresh one , being careful not to burst it with the size 18 hook which , although sharp , is rather thick in the wire for maggot fishing . |
| 15 | They do n't achieve because they have to choose , and the only way to get women achieving in a sort of relaxed way is not to force them with the choice between occupation success and families . |
| 16 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 17 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 18 | Now , has he not left it with the Parish Council ? |
| 19 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
| 20 | And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after . |
| 21 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
| 22 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
| 23 | Do not confuse it with the Beta-Zeta pair , which is more widely separated ; Zeta is of magnitude 4.7 . |
| 24 | Do not confuse it with the head , for the latter can be struck harder and still score . |
| 25 | She certainly did not blend it with the crowd . |
| 26 | The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves . |
| 27 | The seller can not lose , and indeed the bank tells the seller not to concern himself with the authority given to the cardholder . |
| 28 | Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) . |
| 29 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 30 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |