Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For personal reasons I prefer not to spend another night here in Denmark . |
| 2 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 3 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 4 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 5 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 6 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 7 | In the present case I do not agree with Mann L.J. , with all respect to him , that there is any great difficulty in defining the persons from whom , applying the principle to which I have just referred , the decision-making authority might be required to seek representations . |
| 8 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 9 | Certainly , it brought about the beginnings of an emotional freedom I had not known , and a deeper commitment to radical politics . |
| 10 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 11 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 12 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , ’ says she , exaggerating the poshness I had not realised was in the word . |
| 14 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 15 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 16 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 17 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 18 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 19 | No , this afternoon I do not think so . |
| 20 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 21 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 22 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 23 | And if p is false then no matter how sure I am of p I do not know it . |
| 24 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 25 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 26 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 27 | In any event for my part I do not think that such a limitation exists . |
| 28 | But for my part I do not think that this is a complete analysis . |
| 29 | At present I do not seem able to print out both using the one driver . |
| 30 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |