Example sentences of "do not [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown .
2 It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others .
3 When they participated in the market economy , they were usually confined to menial positions , many of which did not bring them into much contact with men .
4 Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death .
5 Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all .
6 Indeed , she did not accompany them on this stroll along the Western Esplanade to the Dumpton Gap even in their thoughts .
7 In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength .
8 The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 .
9 Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century .
10 While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance .
11 In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration !
12 These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " .
13 Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place .
14 Some elite theorists believe that the masses have repressed interests even if they do not express them in observable forums .
15 We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence .
16 I do not see them at all .
17 Some judges make extensive use of shoulder headings ; some do not use them at all .
18 Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited .
19 Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all .
20 At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage .
21 We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste .
22 Mere spatial separation does not divide them from each other .
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