Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let them not take in their commons , neither make parks nor pastures of whole parishes : for God gave the earth to man to inherit not unto sheep and wild deer . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Let me not tire of thanking you , ’ he wrote , ‘ for your mercy in rescuing me from all my wicked ways . ’ |
| 3 | Dear children , let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth . ’ |
| 4 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 5 | In fact , she was offered a better deal ( let us not go into too many historic technicalities ) in Oxford , but she chose Cambridge because of Flora Piercy 's eye-shadow , and because of Dr Leavis . |
| 6 | However there are , of course , some very good coroners who say to the inspector at the outset , ‘ You go ahead and do your job of investigating the cause of the accident and I will carry out my formal inquiry into the cause of death , and in those areas where our activities tend to overlap let us co-operate together but equally let us not interfere with each other in respect of those matters in which we are not qualified to make judgements . ’ |
| 7 | Let us not dwell on the early inhabitants of the Abbey for that would run to a Who 's Who of our heritage . |
| 8 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 9 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
| 10 | At once all sternness and hostility fell from him and , amusement lighting his dark eyes once more , ‘ I do know that , Fabia , ’ he drawled , adding , with pole-axing charm , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to . ’ |
| 11 | But , while there was a great urge in her to want to extend the dream of an evening , there was also that part of her that , for all Ven 's , ‘ I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to ’ and his ‘ What a charming companion you 've been ’ , caused her to push temptation away . |
| 12 | And as her heart turned over , so she again remembered his , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere did I not want to ’ of yesterday . |
| 13 | I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether . |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you not go to the feast ? ’ |
| 15 | Or did you not bother with the slap because you were enjoying the tickling so much ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 17 | Did you not respond to orders Richard Richard ? |
| 18 | Did you not get on it then ? |
| 19 | ‘ Whom did you not see in court this morning ? ’ |
| 20 | Did you not have to be off the ground a wee bit or something . |
| 21 | Did you not hear about when they broke the thing ? |
| 22 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 23 | Did you not know about contraceptives ? |
| 24 | ‘ Do you not think of those who must be responsible for them , who bear the burden and strain without training , and without help of any kind ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why do you not speak to Chambers ? ’ |
| 26 | Do you not , do you not want to every week ? |
| 27 | ‘ Then why do you not go to bed ? ’ |
| 28 | Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ? |
| 29 | Why do you not steal from shops ? |
| 30 | Do you not agree with that ? |