Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 2 | Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy . |
| 3 | There were few of these in which did not float some ghastly , stinking fragment of humanity . |
| 4 | There are few documents which do not exhibit some of these features ; and none of these features is particularly restricted to any one kind of document . |
| 5 | There are few community councils in Wales which do not have some area of countryside or open ground where nature flourishes , be it inland or on the coast . |
| 6 | Empirical examples of peaceful societies , which do not need some release mechanism for assumed aggressive drives , should at least alert us to the possibly false linking of human aggression and human nature . |
| 7 | It seems that the Secretary of State will seek to safeguard the existing pension rights of those who work in the subsidiaries by looking closely at the buy-out proposals and that he will not favour any buy-out proposal which does not give some future security of pension rights to the workers who will be affected . |
| 8 | Who has not experienced some gut upset before an exam , a marriage , or other stressful emotional event ? 40 years ago Almy showed that stress could alter gut function but that these changes were not specific to the stress . |
| 9 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 10 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 11 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 12 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 13 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 14 | Even if you do not work some or all of your normal hours during that period , you should still be paid for them if you are : |
| 15 | No , she did not want some of Harry 's handful of flour and dal ! |
| 16 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she gasped , and unable to believe that he should think such a thing , let alone say it , she was not sure she did not lose some of her colour . |
| 17 | The golfer who does not suffer some degree of disappointment or annoyance when forced to offer his hand to a victorious opponent is the golfer who will always float in a morass of mediocrity . |
| 18 | One person 's point of believing may be another person 's point of doubting ; there is no one who does not have some faith . |
| 19 | In such discourses , what can be specified about the sender is often justifiably taken for granted , because the student has experience of these discourse types in his or her own language : in the modern world we are unlikely to come across a student who does not have some idea of the nature of news or fiction , and the sort of relationship entered into with the senders . |
| 20 | Those who have not experienced some type of long-term , warm , trusting relationship in their early years often lack self-confidence and may find it difficult to communicate effectively with other people . |
| 21 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 22 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 23 | Sustainability 's recommendations for action have also come under scrutiny , since they do not cover some of the deficiencies identified in the report , including the low-level of recycled materials use , and the company 's preference for road , rather than rail , as means of product transport . |
| 24 | All too often students have difficulty or fail in their learning because they have an imperfect grasp of some concept , or because they have not learned some particular skill . |
| 25 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 26 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 28 | Up to a point diversity is good ; local government would be useless if it did not permit some variety and flexibility in provision . |