Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floy had asked about dangers and what they might expect to encounter , but Fenella did not think it looked especially dangerous . |
| 2 | I do not think it had occurred to anybody in court at this time that Waddell 's conviction would be anything but a foregone conclusion . |
| 3 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 4 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 5 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 6 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 7 | Grilled Dover sole ( not buttery ) , be assertive about any plain grilled white fish , tell the waiter that you do not want it served swimming with butter . |
| 8 | They do not want it diminished by the Bill . |
| 9 | But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation . |
| 10 | ‘ Engraved with tongues of flame , ’ said Flaherty , who had thought up this himself and did not want it overlooked . |
| 11 | Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation . |
| 12 | He could understand , even appreciate , the violence , but he did not want it turned against himself and Nona . |
| 13 | I had not heard it used by anybody else until it was uttered by Jim Taggart , well known to TV viewers as Glaswegian . |
| 14 | And they do not need it spelt out how important it is to promote Orlando 's image as a safe and healthy resort . |
| 15 | ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered . |
| 16 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 17 | She added she had not seen a pewter mug with Ivy 's name on it in its usual place , but could not confirm it had been stolen until the house was straightened out . |
| 18 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |
| 19 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 20 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 21 | Trafalgar resisted restating the accounts since it did not believe it had done anything wrong . |
| 22 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 23 | It seems , though people would rather not see it put into combat , the army has a definite role in the modern civilisation . |
| 24 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 25 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 26 | I try not to let it put me off too much . |
| 27 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 30 | In his skeleton argument , although of course we did not hear it developed , the Attorney-General contended that it is a mixed question of law and fact . |