Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ?
2 my heart not working any more :
3 And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely .
4 ‘ It has been my decision not to do any training so far this season .
5 My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom .
6 You know when I look vexed , I goes , because I hav n't seen you for few weeks , and he walked away , come are you walking back with us ?
7 But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over .
8 Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes .
9 Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’
10 My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain .
11 if he does n't like her then I 'll tell my friend not to come .
12 Lacking travel warrants , I could not have come home on leave had my father not sent me the fare . )
13 He said : ‘ It is my policy not to say anything to the press . ’
14 The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese .
15 ‘ I 'm in the prevention and protection business , so I 'd be failing in my duty not to warn you of the possibilities .
16 He was n't happy about it and extracted my promise not to try , on any account , to negotiate .
17 It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause .
18 Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’
19 So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects .
20 Well the point that I wanted to get off drugs was , my family not wanting any more to do with me , erm , they 'd shut the door on me .
21 I think I was just miserable , and it was far easier to believe the reason was something I could do something about , rather than face the fact that my depression was very complicated , based on things like my family not having much money , and feeling very isolated and different from the kids at school .
22 As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause .
23 Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning .
24 I thanked him and told him to tell my mother not to worry , I knew what to do .
25 Stressing the group 's opposition to water privatisation , he said its decision not to support a referendum was purely on grounds of tactics .
26 Brazil 's undertaking ( despite its decision not to join the ATPC as a full member ) to control wildcat mining at its Bom Futuro mine was expected to reduce production by cutting the mine 's output from 19,000 tonnes in 1990 to 14,000 tonnes in 1991 .
27 The Green Party plans to keep a high profile throughout the general election campaign , despite its decision not to field candidates in Darlington and Richmond .
28 Defending its decision not to disarm 20 per cent of its forces by May 1 , the FMLN claimed that the government had yet to disband the paramilitary National Guard and Treasury Police .
29 In April the UK government announced its decision not to renew its membership following formal talks in February between the Director-General and a UK Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [ see p. 37335 ] .
30 Finally , the revenue has contended that the proper procedure was for Woolwich to seek to challenge its decision not to pay interest by way of judicial review , although it would of course contend that no order should be made on such a review in the present case .
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