Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 2 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 3 | Liverpool University has not approached us regarding flood defence assessment . ’ |
| 4 | the bumper bundle of review samples they were sending has n't reached us in time for this issue , though , so look out next month for further toe-tappin' details ! |
| 5 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 6 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 7 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 8 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 9 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 10 | It would appear that God did not intend us to be fat . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman has changed his wording — at last , he did not accuse us of privatising HMI . |
| 12 | For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line . |
| 13 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 14 | office did not warn us of gales , most of them severe , and a large number of storm force tens . |
| 15 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 16 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 17 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 18 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 19 | Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth . |
| 20 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 21 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 22 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
| 23 | These do not concern us for Kursk guberniia , which was almost exclusively Great Russian and Orthodox , but the traditional independence of the Old Believer elements in the Siberian peasantry must not be forgotten . |
| 24 | Cramlington and North Shields provide examples of a core and outer locale respectively , but they do not provide us with an account of ‘ inner-ring ’ developments . |
| 25 | This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students . |
| 26 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 27 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 28 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 29 | Oakeshott examines the most important modes of experience , which he identifies as science , history , and practice , in order to show how their methods are partial and defective and therefore do not take us nearer the overall coherence of the world of experience which it is the objective of philosophy to pursue . |
| 30 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |