Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I mean I know what I think in the back of my head but I mean I just prefer not to predict , I do n't want to say it does n't matter about thinking I know it 's a bit weird in you know . |
| 2 | For all their bluster about foreign conspiracy , the foreigners who worry them most live not in the United States or Western Europe but in Hungary , Poland and the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | He agrees with the ‘ more probable opinion … [ that ] this consciousness is annexed to , and the affection of one identical immaterial substance ’ , but , expressing his general scepticism about the extent of our knowledge , he says we really do not know the truth of the matter . |
| 4 | She realised she simply did not know whether Amy had that sort of specialist skill . |
| 5 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 6 | Narrative identification … is being rejected … at a point in time when gays can claim they still have not had it . |
| 7 | Perhaps the tennis circuit as we know it today does not suit the British temperament . |
| 8 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 9 | ‘ I have never felt more comfortable in a job saying I just do not know , ’ he said . |
| 10 | This morning , Richardson decided I still did not appreciate that he was serious about the money . |
| 11 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 12 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 13 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 14 | How can the council tax be easy to collect if the people who are responsible for collecting it simply do not know how much they must collect from each household ? |
| 15 | The hallmarks seem to be conditions which are not drafted with any particular parties or transaction in mind , that are used for a series of contracts , and in respect of which the person who puts them forward does not expect much , if any , negotiation to take place . |
| 16 | Did you ever have not enough work for the number of men you had ? |
| 17 | I think she honestly did not know how she played so well . |
| 18 | I think he probably did not so regard it for he said : ‘ She is independent minded and strong minded enough for her will not to be readily overborne by her husband . ’ |
| 19 | That is , they must convict him of the offence which they think he probably did not commit . |
| 20 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 21 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 22 | Fiona admits she still does not know how to check the performance of the fund and that the only information she has received from the company is the annual report and accounts . |
| 23 | In the remote period of human history which we have been discussing it simply did not exist . |
| 24 | It just says throw it away do not eat it , well what 's the object of it ? |
| 25 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |