Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For personal reasons I prefer not to spend another night here in Denmark . |
| 2 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 3 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 4 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 5 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 6 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 7 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 8 | I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men . |
| 9 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |
| 10 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 11 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 12 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 13 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 14 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 15 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 16 | In our list of authors we did not include Enid Blyton or Captain W. E. Johns , author of the Biggles stories . |
| 17 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 18 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 19 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 20 | There were other voices we did not recognize . |
| 21 | When considering points , we have some central mark in the sequence to tell us where we are , and with trajectories we do not . |
| 22 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 23 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 24 | In each country , a random sample of the electorate were questioned about their attitudes towards the political process — their perceived ability to affect political change , their participation in various political activities , their attitude towards parties they did not support and so on . |
| 25 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 26 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 27 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 28 | Not all the editors are guilty : the volumes prepared by Busser , Guilmant , Hahn , Marty and Debussy , for instance , may not measure up to today 's scholarly standards , but in most respects they do not seriously misrepresent the composer 's intentions . |
| 29 | If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins . |
| 30 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |