Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 2 | I am sorry I have not been up to see you but , as you know , I have no job and therefore no income and no car , so life is both difficult and cold ( as I can not keep the heating on at home all day ) . |
| 3 | Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting |
| 4 | ‘ I really am sorry I did not call you , ’ the smart-suited diplomat urged the girl on , his accent heavy Nigerian . |
| 5 | ‘ I am sorry I did not contact you before — things just moved too quickly . |
| 6 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 7 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |
| 8 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 9 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
| 10 | Yeah I have but I do n't how to do them like this I 've not seen it been d drawn out like that . |
| 11 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 12 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , Brother Leo , if after all this I do not lose patience and remain calm , believe me , that is perfect joy ! ’ |
| 14 | In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art . |
| 15 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 16 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 17 | This I do not know . |
| 18 | By this I do not mean that the question of criteria is unimportant , or that the distinction remains meaningful even if there are no ontological objects at all to which it might be applied . |
| 19 | In this I do not think that Eliot exaggerated . |
| 20 | This I do not know , however , my own collection has reached 57 of those issued between Craven Arms and Bishop 's Castle . |
| 21 | This I did not like . |
| 22 | Some of the names I have changed , some I have not . |
| 23 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 24 | I am afraid I did not pause to read my mother 's letter , but tore open the enclosure with spastic fingers . |
| 25 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 26 | But I 'm afraid I did not go to the opera . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am afraid I do not understand , sir , ’ Morton said , straight-faced . |
| 28 | I went back home by taxi because it was too dark for the helicopter to fly , and I 'm afraid I do not travel as well by road . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid I do not understand . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |