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

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1 But mostly I try not to think about him at all .
2 The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then .
3 Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘
4 I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front .
5 Finally , I use dampened white toilet tissue to get rid of any hard lines that may have occurred in my sky , and most importantly I try not to overwork or rework the sky once I am satisfied , just because I see another effect .
6 ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’
7 Perhaps you would rather I did not speak like this . "
8 It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it .
9 Naturally I hope not , and the probability is that we 're exercising ourselves over nothing .
10 I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page .
11 Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’
12 You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’
13 Perhaps I 've not forget it then cos that 's , that 's there 's about !
14 Perhaps I had not wanted to feel ?
15 Perhaps I do not even care ; I do n't know that , either .
16 Perhaps I do not want to know you either , mademoiselle , ’ he rasped .
17 ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now .
18 Perhaps I did not hear . ’
19 Perhaps I did not even know it .
20 You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’
21 Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ .
22 Alida Thorne is a lonely woman , but it is easy enough to make an effort , to understand and accept and perhaps I have not tried .
23 But perhaps I have not your generosity .
24 Perhaps I have not been trying hard enough .
25 Obviously I have not played at any level anywhere near that of Wayne Shelford , but I feel that the sport is quite tough enough without making it downright dangerous !
26 Obviously I do not know but , if I had to bet , I would put my money on one fundamental principle .
27 Personally I do not believe that if there is some global warning , so-called , it will endanger our planet or its inhabitants .
28 Personally I do not go to meetings which do not have a purpose .
29 Personally I think not .
30 last night , yesterday he had one and he said can I have another cream egg , so I said alright , cos there was a box of six , which means he 's had two out the six , he said to me this morning , got any more cream eggs so I said not for you , you 've got one for Martin , so I said yes , I 'll have his then
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