Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa . |
| 2 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 3 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 4 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |
| 5 | Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it . |
| 6 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |
| 7 | They did n't stay there long did they ? |
| 8 | no oh you did n't stay there long did you ? |
| 9 | Tim and I are just simply out of sync at the moment — I ca n't think how else to put it . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't know where else to put him . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't know where else to get it in . |
| 12 | Well we did n't know where else to send them . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do n't know how else to explain it . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know 'ow ter thank yer , ’ Dad said , grasping Albert by the hand . |
| 16 | Well , we did n't do too well did we ? |
| 17 | It did n't work very well did it Stuart ? |
| 18 | Does n't work anywhere else does it ? |
| 19 | As long as it does n't look too obviously like you , he 'll be thrilled . |
| 20 | Did n't sleep very well did you ? |
| 21 | It do n't take long now does it ? |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Course I do or I would n't have bloody well asked yer , would I ? ’ |
| 24 | But me luck do n't hold out forever does it ? |
| 25 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 26 | Of course , yo you do n't go tell him , it do n't come on there does it . |
| 27 | She do n't write very well does she ? |
| 28 | He did n't get in yesterday to see you because er he 's got , he was very , very busy , he 's got a lot of poorly , really poorly patients at the moment |
| 29 | He did n't live long enough to understand it . |
| 30 | It 's it 's the people who do n't turn up always amaze me . |