Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 2 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 3 | The wonderful thing about a consumer culture is that the stores have everything you want — more miraculously they have things you did not even know you wanted : like a wall-sized television set . |
| 4 | Indeed , the injured man did not even know he had been bitten until the water turned red as he swam to shore . |
| 5 | ( So : Minter did not even know he had left Rhodes , far less all he had discovered since then — notably about Minter himself . ) |
| 6 | There was no way to teach a man to read the Bible — a predominant intention in much early education in literacy — which did not also enable him to read the radical press . |
| 7 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
| 8 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 9 | She did not then wish us to meet and I am glad that she did not — for us in Greece it was a painful time because of Cyprus , and I should not have wished to keep this from her , or to be speaking of it . |
| 10 | The Council 's Charter did not formally require it to initiate , to enter policy arenas , to sponsor development , and in fact it prescribed the CNAA 's role in the ‘ diffusion and extension of the arts , sciences and technologies ’ as being through the approval of courses of study and the granting of awards . |
| 11 | 664 of Ealdwulf ( in his seventeenth regnal year at the time of the council of Hatfield ( HE IV , 17 ) , son of Anna 's brother , Aethelric , brought to royal power a new branch of the royal family ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , but Ealdwulf 's Northumbrian connection — he was the son of a Deiran princess ( see above , p. 78 ) and in continuing contact with Northumbria ( HE 11 , 15 ) — did not necessarily enable him to exist independently of Wulfhere 's sphere of influence . |
| 12 | Moreover , because leprosy is often spread by people who do not yet know they have the disease , therapy with drugs is not very effective . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not exactly expect you to give your share away , mademoiselle . |
| 14 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 15 | The findings of this questionnaire do not unfortunately enable us to assess such subjective impressions . |
| 16 | The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations . |
| 17 | But erm Rivers did n't exactly subjugate it did he ? |
| 18 | The specialist gave him a series of injections which did n't exactly help him feel happy . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , when it came to it , I did n't exactly see you rushing up ready to shake him by the finger , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |
| 21 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |
| 22 | " I did n't just let her send me to bed — I wanted to go to bed . " |
| 23 | ‘ How do you know she did n't just let him die , knowing he belonged to me ? ’ |
| 24 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 25 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 26 | Motorbikes , cars , light goods H G V including two three and four axle and buses for the , for the whole count , now for the samples Rob did n't even want it classified . |
| 27 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 28 | I did n't even hear them talk , just saw them , and the story came . |
| 29 | I did n't even hear you come in . ’ |
| 30 | No I did n't even hear it click so |