Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody sees a different picture and of course most people see do n't see it anyway because by the time they look and see what 's happened it 's already happened . |
| 2 | It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’ |
| 3 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 4 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 5 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 6 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 7 | But , evidently , they did not eat it very much . |
| 8 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 9 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 10 | This remark had haunted Khrushchev , who had several times explained he did not mean it literally , and finally got that famous goat . |
| 11 | ‘ If you did not mean it so — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I — I did not mean it so , ’ he faltered . |
| 13 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 14 | As the crisis deepened and I came into the depression and withdrawal stages , I knew intellectually that God was still my friend , even though I did not feel it emotionally . ’ |
| 15 | The impulse was so strong that she could hardly believe that he did not feel it too . |
| 16 | It is now almost impossible to imagine how doctors did not diagnose it before . |
| 17 | They did not portray it simply as a change in philosophical stance , but as an outcome of the advance in scientific psychological knowledge . |
| 18 | They did not treat it as equivalent to either the other nonsense word or to more or less . |
| 19 | If Sussex people were greatly upset by the closure of the monasteries , they did not show it openly thereafter , and the county avoided the troubles of 1536 which affected the north of England . |
| 20 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 21 | There was no fear of his not knowing she did not like it either as , leaning back in his chair , he began easily , ‘ I propose , after much thought , ’ he added silkily , charm there in abundance , ‘ to … ’ he paused , and even smiled ‘ … to take you over as my girlfriend . ’ |
| 22 | She had not liked it before , did not like it now , and the throng of tourists who had also disembarked , wearing baggy floral shorts , trussed with the straps of cameras and rucksacks , was irritating . |
| 23 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 24 | Blushed and took her hand she did not take it away . |
| 25 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 26 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 27 | I did not take it seriously . ’ |
| 28 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 29 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 30 | After the first-race fall of Sibton Abbey , his trainer Ferdy Murphy did not put it quite so politely . |