Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , comedians adapted the words to ‘ Do n't go down the mine , Daddy , there 's plenty coal in the cellar ’ . |
| 2 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 3 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 4 | Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ? |
| 5 | He insisted the polls indicated that the voters did not want either the Tories or Labour to win outright . |
| 6 | The man he left in charge did not carry out the duties expected of him . |
| 7 | Luke even hints that the Romans did not carry out the execution of Jesus but that the responsibility was that of the Jews ( Luke 23:25–26 ) . ) |
| 8 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 9 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 10 | The Court accepted that the agreement did not formulate precisely the inhabitants ' rights but thought them sufficiently precise for judicial enforcement . |
| 11 | That arranged between Henry V and Duke Philip of Burgundy , imposed upon the sick king , Charles VI , and then formally registered ( or approved ) by France 's highest judicial body , the Parlement , did not carve up the kingdom , at least not on paper . |
| 12 | If the frustration of subsequent queues for material did not bring about the state clearinghouses , then easier local access for librarians to material in their own state certainly encouraged their establishment . |
| 13 | However , this revelation did not bring about the destruction of Euclidean geometry , it simply added to it . |
| 14 | The previous constant price system did not bring out the effect of , for example , the rapid relative rise in public service pay in 1979–80 resulting from the Clegg Commission and other comparability awards . |
| 15 | The previous constant price system did not bring out the effect of , for example , the rapid relative rise in public service pay in 1979–80 resulting from the Clegg Commission and other comparability awards . |
| 16 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 17 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew . |
| 19 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 20 | Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced . |
| 21 | If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity . |
| 22 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 23 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 24 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 25 | In a third study in ulcers with a non-bleeding visible vessel , heater probe treatment did not improve significantly the rebleeding or death rates compared with controls . |
| 26 | He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered . |
| 27 | The Director of Studies then asked why the syllabus did not set out the relationship between assessment criteria and objectives more explicitly . |
| 28 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 29 | At the time of writing they had not selected anyone to contest East Hampshire but a spokesman did not rule out the possibility before nominations closed . |
| 30 | At that time Paul Lee did not rule out the possibility of other families in South Ronaldsay being involved in the ritual sexual abuse that was alleged . |