Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 2 | I do not think we get much further by supposing that Jesus gave two insufflations of his Holy Spirit , one in John 's upper room , and one at Luke 's Pentecost . |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 6 | I repeat , however : I do not think we face war . |
| 7 | Personally , I do not think we need an alternative god to look up to . |
| 8 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 9 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 10 | I do not think we do this . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 12 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 13 | I do not think they have seen me . |
| 14 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 15 | If lawyers think a particular proposition about legislation is true by convention , they will not think they need any substantive reason for accepting it . |
| 16 | You must not think him ridden with angst just because , for once , he 's agreed to discuss with us the things he normally ignores . |
| 17 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 18 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 19 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 20 | Do not think you walk your own road , you walk down a telephone |
| 21 | Do not think you sleep in the hand of God you sleep in the mouthpiece of a telephone |
| 22 | ‘ You should not think you have the Merkuts to thank for your freedom , ’ Jehan said conversationally . |
| 23 | ’ I do not think you have … much to offer . ’ |
| 24 | You might not think you do but you do . |
| 25 | Floy had asked about dangers and what they might expect to encounter , but Fenella did not think it looked especially dangerous . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 30 | 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 . |