Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 2 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 3 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 4 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 5 | He was now , in any case , extremely happy ; " I 'm the luckiest man in the world , " he told Robert Giroux , and to Joseph Chiari he said that he did not think he deserved such happiness . |
| 6 | It did not make him feel any cleaner . |
| 7 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 8 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 9 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 10 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 11 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 13 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 14 | Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do . |
| 15 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 16 | Working together on the floor had not constrained them to produce similar representations . |
| 17 | We did not know what to think last night and we had to fear the worst . |
| 18 | Many parents can not identify who wins these battles and when they think about it carefully admit that in reality the child mostly wins . |
| 19 | The UN had not said he deserved political asylum . |
| 20 | It may mean some gentle but very straight talking , if your parent does not realise your need to have time alone with your friends , but if you can not bring yourself to establish this right , you will have precious little hope of organising any other social activities that will give you a break from daily routine . |
| 21 | One of the gunmen had been instructed to kill Thakin Nu , who was elsewhere , but he could not bring himself to slay this man known for his religious piety . |
| 22 | But , for all the familiar historical reasons , they can not bring themselves to take decisive steps to tighten the ring around the IRA south of the border . |
| 23 | They could not bring themselves to waste good paper — even if it was Fergie 's . |
| 24 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 25 | The House would not expect me to give any assurances about the timing of construction and the extent to which the investment appraisal test will be met . |
| 26 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 27 | ‘ Those new masters of yours will not expect you to adopt this perspective . |
| 28 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 29 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 30 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |