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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	This ‘ fair shares ’ system ( which , with the proliferation of news channels , is surely nearing the end of its useful life ) encourages them to think not in terms of earning that place on the news , but rather in terms of keeping the broadcasters supplied with positive images .
2	She made me promise not to tell what had happened .
3	‘ She made me promise not to ask . ’
4	I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma .
5	I realized I had not been fair to myself .
6	I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
7	I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
8	I realized I had not told anybody where I was going .
9	Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day .
10	Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’
11	I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me .
12	‘ No , my dear lady , I regret I have not .
13	I realised I had not mentioned Elsie at all , and I was glad .
14	Subject , however , to the limitations to which I have referred I do not see why any restriction should be placed on the type of order that could be made under section 6(2) .
15	I do n't know I mean I prefer not to predict .
16	I mean I 've not done it before this is
17	I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it .
18	I mean I 've not had or no skin or nothing it 's something like maybe
19	Would there be a fee involved , I mean I ask not only for me but for Ivan as well since he lives in Devon .
20	I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them .
21	Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see .
22	The presuppositions of a modifier can not be pinpointed in this way , because a head which exactly duplicates them does not yield pleonasm .
23	the shares , together with any shares already held by the person acquiring them carry not less than 75% of the votes ; and
24	A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’
25	They caught up with Henry 's rearguard , which was under William Marshal 's command and , in William 's opinion , would have overwhelmed them had not William himself saved the day .
26	Yeah hello mate yeah yeah I do n't know I 've not received it yet no so I 'm just waiting for er someone to bomb into my office yeah do you want it , what , what , do you want it colour mate or black and white ?
27	I do n't know I 've not seen her since she 's sixty one and a half six five .
28	But er , no I do n't know I hope not !
29	But this revival of national awareness is happening I believe not just in Germany .
30	Which just leaves her domestic credentials to knock into shape , and now that they 're under scrutiny I realise I 've not done a very good job at all .