Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess . |
| 2 | It did not make him feel any cleaner . |
| 3 | After all , we have no proof against him , and if we can not make him talk , this mystery will never be solved . |
| 4 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 5 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 6 | • Many poisons cause as much damage coming back up as they do going down , so do not make him vomit unless you are sure it is safe to do so . |
| 7 | We can create conditions for an employer , but we can not make him employ someone under those conditions . |
| 8 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 11 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 12 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 13 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 14 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 15 | It can not make me change my mind , so if you intend using it use it and shoot me now . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 17 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 18 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 19 | But we have come out to catch that prisoner , and the Devil himself will not make me turn back . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 22 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 23 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 24 | Dr Leslie Weatherhead wrote , in Prescription for Anxiety , ‘ Deadness of feeling , even if we think we do not love anybody , not even God , must not make us worry . |
| 25 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 26 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 27 | Knowing about methods of preventing pregnancy does not make you go to the doctor or the clinic and ask for them . |
| 28 | I will not make you bring in wood and water , or feed the pig , or milk the cow . ’ |
| 29 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 30 | My colleagues and I do not believe that the British people will be fooled a second time — one can take a horse to water but one can not make it drink . |