Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 2 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |
| 3 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 4 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 5 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 6 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |