Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and quite honestly , I think they not only do they not bring them up to do , I mean useful like that , but I thought Ken 's his family never showed any affection any warmth , any caring , any love , and I would do anything for anyone if they just say thank you , but with Ken |
| 2 | Not only do they not remember the actions and funny voices , but , when asked if they even knew who Rudyard Kipling was , Max said : ‘ Of course we do , Mom — the Iranians are trying to assassinate him . ’ |
| 3 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 4 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 5 | Not only do we not get from the Enlightenment an understanding of human nature that is under the curse of the fall , neither do we get a true understanding of men and women made in the image of God . |
| 6 | Not only do we not know what these units should be ( e.g. phones , diphones , syllables , etc ) , there are few if any acoustic cues to the boundaries between such units . |
| 7 | Not only do we not enjoy what we eat ; in many instances we do not even notice what it tastes like . |
| 8 | ‘ Not only do you not wear a wedding-ring , but you have the air , the aura of sexual uncertainty which belies a history of nights spent in connubial bliss . ’ |
| 9 | Unless you return to the UK with my business , not only do you not have a job , but the whole future of Grantham and Marsh is on the line . ’ |
| 10 | And how far do I not accept what I think I might get in order to remain on good terms . |
| 11 | Another one was in Isaiah chapter forty and er God says here do you not know , have you not heard the Lord is the everlasting God , the creator of the ends of the earth . |
| 12 | Why then do we not take the same laid-back attitude if someone says ‘ I am in pain … ’ ? |
| 13 | But how do we not give up ? |
| 14 | But how do you be really , how do you not scare yourselves from going out ? gon na return to your homes and that everything 's going to be left as it was ? |
| 15 | ‘ How do you not know ? |
| 16 | When do I not pay SSP ? |
| 17 | When do I not pay SSP ? |
| 18 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
| 19 | Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ? |
| 20 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 21 | If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ? |
| 22 | Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ? |
| 23 | Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ? |
| 24 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
| 25 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
| 26 | Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ? |
| 27 | Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ? |
| 28 | So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ? |
| 29 | Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ? |
| 30 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |