Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will not rectify themselves on their own . |
| 2 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 3 | Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised . |
| 4 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 5 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 6 | He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed ; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front ; he must run a motor car that does n't drink petrol like tapwater and wo n't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer ; above all , he must abstain from vicious pleasures — or if he needs must indulge , then he must do so only in moderation . |
| 7 | It occurred to Hobbes that since knowledge , whether systematically developed or not , begins with sense-perception , we should not pride ourselves on knowing much if we do not understand what sense-perception actually is . |
| 8 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 9 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 10 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't trouble yourself on my account , mate . ’ |
| 12 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , make sure you do n't show yourself on the skyline up there . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't pat yourself on the back too soon . |
| 15 | It 's up to me whether I eat or not , too , but I just ca n't see myself on that diet of nothing . ’ |
| 16 | Watch you do n't burn yourself on that lady ! |
| 17 | do n't hit yourself on the head , it 'll hurt , shall I make you say Robert |
| 18 | Do n't push yourself on these exercises either ; work your way into Stamina — after all , that 's what it means : staying power . |