Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He 's told you that you 're not , we 're not getting a fair share of the business with him , but the figures I see do n't do n't say that at all
2 Say add a third and a quarter ca n't do that do n't know where to start .
3 I 'd just do n't know how to go with it , I du n no what to do .
4 I du n no where to take this next , shall I take it downstairs and yeah well , my half on this is stinted. quite interesting .
5 I just du n no where to start !
6 Du n no probably going home and going to sleep .
7 I du n no I , I du n no even know if he 's done it yet .
8 I du n no how to put
9 No it was n't mine it was , it was er du n no how to say
10 I know it 's a train station and that , but I du n no how to get home from here .
11 I 'd rather go home , but I du n no how to get there , and I do n't want to get lost .
12 as if Erdle knew something about him , or his background , that he did not want generally known .
13 Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it .
14 A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs .
15 Dusterandus is not mentioned , perhaps because Octavia simply did not care even to consider his merits as a husband .
16 She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned .
17 It would seem that there is a demand for such assistance as 1 in 5 of all applicants said that they did not go on to take the course because of financial difficulties .
18 These migrants differed in some important respects from the 46% of applicants who were non–enrollers , ( those who applied to a particular institution but did not go on to enrol anywhere ) .
19 This is because the revolution in East Germany after 1945 changed the structures of power and ownership — but did not go on to change the structure of social relationships .
20 Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves .
21 She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation .
22 Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men .
23 Peggy did not go up to apologise to her great-grandmother ; she was too busy doing the work that had been Rosie 's routine .
24 Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors .
25 Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality .
26 She knew that he would cause a scene on her when he came in if she did not go out to talk to him .
27 It is assumed by the survey , and accepted by most historians of the period that married women with children did not go out to work unless they had to .
28 During the 1940s and 1950s , when the concept of ‘ maternal deprivation ’ was growing in popularity and links were being made between it and juvenile delinquency , Professor Zweig still found National Assistance officials ready to label the widow with school-age children who did not go out to work as an ‘ inferior type ’ and a ‘ professional ’ widow .
29 Ellen and I did not go out to eat .
30 Mrs Edwards , of Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict he was killed in action because he did not go out to fight ; he went out to keep the peace . ’
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