Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I must admit this is the fence I do not want to jump , for though I know there are new novels that succeed , I am at something of a loss to describe , in reasonable critical terms , why they succeed . |
| 32 | Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances . |
| 33 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 34 | Why I headed for Basra I do not know . |
| 35 | What the psychiatrists or psychoanalysts make of this condition I do not know . |
| 36 | ‘ That remedy I do not offer , ’ said the Arab . |
| 37 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 38 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 39 | She said , with a flippancy she did not feel , ‘ Are you thinking in terms of hours , perhaps ? |
| 40 | When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map . |
| 41 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 42 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 43 | He replied that he could not come right away , to which the foreign minister , Ibrahim Yazdi , replied , ; Mr Farhad Sepabhodi , I can not listen to our statements.If you do not come back immediately , very serious action will be taken against you . " |
| 44 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 45 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 46 | Indeed , on the Lazarsfeldian conception we do not need to know what class really is . |
| 47 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 48 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 49 | In our list of authors we did not include Enid Blyton or Captain W. E. Johns , author of the Biggles stories . |
| 50 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 51 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 52 | Also , for this effect we do not require a single delay time . |
| 53 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 54 | As we have said , in practice we do not need to write down M1 etc . |
| 55 | There were other voices we did not recognize . |
| 56 | ‘ … to be on the Riviera without a motor car is a condition we do not care to imagine ’ , reported Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 57 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 58 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 59 | As the result they do not sit very effectively over a bolt-hole . |
| 60 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |