Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ May we not lend you a mount , Miss Abbott ? ’
2 not make them an enormous feature .
3 They should not think her a woman who had let herself go .
4 He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him .
5 ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames .
6 I did not think it a good book , but I shall always be grateful to it .
7 I know and you know that Hardy did not think it a sad poem — just a comment and a summing up .
8 I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things .
9 This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's .
10 But that support , which the Nobel committee acknowledges , does not make her a guerrilla .
11 But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister .
12 It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him .
13 That did not make him a criminal under section 14 .
14 Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch .
15 Feeling guilty does not make me a better person .
16 Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though .
17 ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . )
18 But again this does not make me a Christian .
19 And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person .
20 You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations .
21 Even this thing you say you did — even that does not make you a bad man .
22 ‘ These will not make you a courtier , Roger , but at least you wo n't be a beggar ! ’
23 Personally , I reject the Oxford claim that English Literature begins with Anglo-Saxon , and would not make it a required subject .
24 This may sound impossible , but if there is a distinct possibility that this will eventually be needed , why not make it a goal to begin establishing such a fund now ?
25 Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ .
26 Merely exhibiting a sample during the negotiations will not make it a sale by sample unless the parties agree that it is a sale by sample .
27 The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence .
28 Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black .
29 She mentions Chodorow 's socialization theory of the transfer of concerns with care and responsibility from mothers to daughters , but she does not make it an integral part of her own account .
30 WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one .
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