Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stayed for hours , not worrying , not thinking ; not seeing herself doing things , which was her usual way of planning ahead , chopping herbs , washing salad , seeing her hands arranging things on plates , hearing her voice ask for things in shops . |
| 2 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 3 | I do not think we do this . ’ |
| 4 | You might not think you do but you do . |
| 5 | Secondly , I do not think it does a college principal any harm to operate in a different framework , see how others organise themselves and bring a principal 's view to bear upon validation exercises — and possibly upon SCOTVEC itself ! |
| 6 | It 's not a position where A number of people have the idea that it ca n't be a beneficiary , it can , it often is a beneficiary for the obvious reason that if the beneficiaries are getting the goodies , why not make them do the work necessary to get hold of them ? |
| 7 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 8 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 9 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 10 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 11 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 12 | There are others who need to work out how dangerous it would be to do something that America and Europe do not want them to do . |
| 13 | She had told him nothing of what her interviews with Mrs Diamond and Morpurgo had yielded and he had not pressed her to do so . |
| 14 | cos it 's not raining I do n't know what I 'm talking about |
| 15 | I 'm not helping you do it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not suggesting we do n't have problems , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I 'm not suggesting anything do n't say it in that tone of voice ! |
| 18 | ‘ No , no , I 'm not suggesting you do . |
| 19 | Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways . |
| 20 | And if you 've got those skills apply to them job , I 'm not suggesting you do n't , but remember the first part of a , a tele , er a telephone or a face to face sales negotiation is , th th two of these and one of these . |
| 21 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 22 | Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next . |
| 23 | You do not need anyone to do this for you . |
| 24 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 25 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 26 | I do not know what to do and sneak looks at everyone else , while the ‘ real ’ campers pause to stare as we sit on Karrimats eating supper . |
| 27 | You have all the knowledge , and all the choices are available , and the trouble is that with all this knowledge a child does not know what to do , how to make a decision . |
| 28 | He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave . |
| 29 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 30 | But , having gained it , they do not know what to do with it — yet . ’ |