Example sentences of "do not [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 3 | So long as the Algerian and Berlin crises were continuing , de Gaulle did not spell out the full implications of this threat , although his decisions , in 1959 , to withdraw the French Mediterranean fleet from NATO and to deny the US permission to base atomic weapons in France were clearly designed to reinforce the original message . |
| 4 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 5 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 6 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 7 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 8 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 9 | In fact , analysis of the interview material did not mark out the Irish women as particularly different from their British-born counterparts on any dimension of attitudes or behaviour . |
| 10 | The notes do not set out the full legal requirements . |
| 11 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |
| 12 | ‘ Then nothing to suggest that — granted he walked in of his own will — he did n't walk out the same way ? ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps the producer hurried the film prematurely into production , or the director did n't carry out the necessary preparation . |
| 14 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Cinderella 's coach did n't turn up the second time around ? ’ |
| 16 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 17 | Erm I did n't write down the other things that you mentioned as we were going through that were n't on this list . |
| 18 | She did n't take out the folded sheet . |
| 19 | It 's time we took a stronger line with wild-eyed enthusiasts who do n't think through the full consequences of their soft-hearted feelings . |
| 20 | Charles , who had been criticized as increasingly authoritarian during her 10 years in office , dismissed opposition complaints by claiming that " we have always realized that elections do n't throw up the best people " . |
| 21 | Do n't sit down the whole time while you 're teaching . |
| 22 | ‘ All the failsafes are power driven — if we do n't get out the whole section will depressurize ! ’ |
| 23 | When you when archaeologists carry out the dig they do n't dig up the whole site . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , do n't put on the brave front for me ! |
| 25 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 26 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 27 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 28 | As James says , anger that is left unresolved ‘ does not bring about the righteous life that God desires ’ ( Jas. 1:20 ) . |
| 29 | The comparison does not set up the neat , formal differences such as those exploited by Weaver ( 1985 ) between the executive dominance of the Canadian parliamentary system and the checks and balances of the United States constitution . |
| 30 | If the bank mortgage form does not set out the precise amount of the home loan and the terms under which it is to be repaid , then it is important to ensure that the client receives a letter from the bank manager spelling out in precise terms the nature of the loan , the interest rate applicable to it and the regularity of the instalment payments . |