Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 2 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 3 | He could not think of their fate . |
| 4 | Yet even in cuisine , from which the metaphor of ‘ taste ’ comes , people who take food seriously do not think of their preferences as relativistic in this sense . |
| 5 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 6 | There is not a day goes by that Joan does not think of her youngest child . |
| 7 | but I could not think of its name . |
| 8 | I can not think of your offer without equal concern and gratitude ; however , I will rely wholly upon your goodness in assisting my escape . |
| 9 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 10 | There is a passage in the Mithraic communion which is particularly interesting : ‘ He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him , shall not be saved . ’ |
| 11 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 12 | Some people , but only a very few , endeavoured to thwart the lucrative customs of the funeral furnisher by specifically requesting a coffin of a type not expected of their situation . |
| 13 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 14 | ‘ There is nobody I do business with that does not know of my convictions , ’ Mr Carway told The Independent . |
| 15 | And you my Sister Doña Ximena , and your women , see that ye utter no cries , neither make any lamentation for me , that the Moors may not know of my death . |
| 16 | ‘ Somewhere out there are people who may or may not know of my existence , people I can call my own — ’ |
| 17 | Your lover need not know of our little trip . ’ |
| 18 | more reluctant to so infer , particularly where the applicant did not know of his right to object at that stage . |
| 19 | Perhaps the rather strict parson would not approve of her travelling so far on a Sunday . |
| 20 | However , I still have to say I do not approve of your climbing ladders . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The Regional and District Health Authority has shown contempt for the views of anyone who did not approve of your agenda for the health service on Merseyside . |
| 22 | ‘ Then I 'm afraid you might not approve of our rustic environment and rural activities . ’ |
| 23 | Archbishop Fisher did not approve of his fellow-archbishop being prominent in such company at such a moment of history . |
| 24 | He does not approve of his thing . |
| 25 | He refused to take her to the pub to have a drink , explaining that he did not want to hurt Jayne , who would not approve of his energy being spent on anything other than skating . |
| 26 | But to be safe he had promised not to talk of their meetings . |
| 27 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 28 | Later Anne thought over Sarah 's words about clothes for people who needed them and felt ashamed that she had not thought of their plight . |
| 29 | Had she not thought of her mistress first ? |
| 30 | Signs were not lacking of my probable destiny . |