Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 2 | Most who drive cars would agree that does not make us expert mechanics . |
| 3 | The Bishop , reading Peter 's thoughts , would have liked to have put his arms around him , would have liked to have said , I can not make you Archdeacon because you have insufficient judgement and experience , but you are a good priest , a conscientious priest , and I am wretched to disappoint you . |
| 4 | She may not want you Rocket . |
| 5 | Although there are between 30,000 and 50,000 Somalis squatting in the tiny littoral state of Djibouti , its government does not grant them refugee status and deports any Somalis - guerrillas or refugees — it catches crossing the border . |
| 6 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 7 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 8 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
| 9 | In case relatives not present wish to view the body , great care should be taken not to cause them distress or offence . |
| 10 | It was this that gave Anselm the hint that peace would not bring him freedom to exercise his episcopal functions . |
| 11 | If Odin does not bring them peace and good harvests , then it is the duty of God and the King . |
| 12 | It 's not costing you money ? |
| 13 | You do not do me justice , my dallta , for what you do reflects on me also , and they laugh at me with you because you let a wee Campbell lassie put a petticoat on you ! ’ |
| 14 | The aforesaid captain I shall endeavour to keep beside me as my bondsman ; hobbled , and under my eye , he can not do me injury . |
| 15 | The greatest unfairness , she thought , was that the women who could afford to buy the beautiful clothes simply did not do them justice , while she , who showed them off so well , had to save for weeks , even given her staff discount , for the most modestly priced item . |
| 16 | It does not do him justice to say he is on their side , but he leaves us in no doubt about the horror of what Jacob and Rebekah have done . |
| 17 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 18 | But it would not do you justice , or me justice , to say it was just that . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 20 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |
| 21 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
| 22 | Why did Diniz not send me word when it happened ? ’ |
| 23 | And they know what you 're doing at the moment do they whilst you 're not serving them ice-cream . |
| 24 | Until we do know , we can not give them expression in tears or anger . |
| 25 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 26 | In spite of these provisions , not infrequently Courts conveyed the view that the Act did not give them power to make orders with a condition of access . |
| 27 | ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along . |
| 28 | They know that trade unions could be mediators between them and management , but they do not give them authority . |
| 29 | But why not give him credit for a simple human weakness ; the attraction of eating a good dinner which he has n't had to cook ? ’ |
| 30 | But his mother did not give him permission to work . |