Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 3 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 5 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 6 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 7 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 8 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 9 | Having failed to asset copyright on the 80386 name and 386 tag , Intel Corp is in a real bind over the P5 , and according to Computer Reseller News has decided not to call it the 80586 . |
| 10 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 11 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 12 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 13 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 14 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 15 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 16 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 17 | The court held that this did not give it the power to operate a commercial laundry . |
| 18 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 19 | The confidential report , The Philippine Poor : What is to be Done says about 30 million Filipinos , out of the country 's 56 million population live in ‘ absolute poverty , in the sense of having an income that did not enable them the satisfy basic needs ’ . |
| 20 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 21 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 22 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 23 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 24 | He took his wife with him , but he was n't sure that she would keep his secret , so he did not tell her the truth . |
| 25 | ‘ The early try did not cost us the game , but the late penalty certainly did lose it for us . ’ |
| 26 | In looking back at my records I notice that I did not send you the enclosed form which I have now completed . |
| 27 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 28 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 29 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 30 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |