Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 2 | Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting |
| 3 | ‘ I really am sorry I did not call you , ’ the smart-suited diplomat urged the girl on , his accent heavy Nigerian . |
| 4 | ‘ I am sorry I did not contact you before — things just moved too quickly . |
| 5 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 6 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |
| 7 | After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 8 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 9 | In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art . |
| 10 | By this I do not mean that the question of criteria is unimportant , or that the distinction remains meaningful even if there are no ontological objects at all to which it might be applied . |
| 11 | In this I do not think that Eliot exaggerated . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Brother Leo , if after all this I do not lose patience and remain calm , believe me , that is perfect joy ! ’ |
| 13 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 14 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 15 | This I do not know . |
| 16 | This I do not know , however , my own collection has reached 57 of those issued between Craven Arms and Bishop 's Castle . |
| 17 | This I did not like . |
| 18 | But I 'm afraid I did not go to the opera . ’ |
| 19 | I am afraid I did not pause to read my mother 's letter , but tore open the enclosure with spastic fingers . |
| 20 | ‘ It was done from my section and I am afraid I did not ask for sufficient permission . |
| 21 | I went back home by taxi because it was too dark for the helicopter to fly , and I 'm afraid I do not travel as well by road . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do not care for the theatre . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I am afraid I do not understand , sir , ’ Morton said , straight-faced . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid I do not understand . |
| 25 | And all through this she did not think of Giles . |
| 26 | A normal 2¼ does not run out of steam at 60mph Check that on full throttle the carb is actually on full throttle 24v distributors do not have provision for a vacuum ignition timing advance only a mechanical system which is prone to failure Also as the 24v plugs are very expensive these are seldom changed once out of the forces A cure this You do not comment on the general state of the engine possibly a decoke , piston rings and cylinder head skim ( up to 65 thousandsths of an inch ) which will give you the performance and reliability you require |
| 27 | Looking at the ground , he said , ‘ You know me better than anyone , Giancarlo , but this you do not understand . ’ |
| 28 | So high you do not hear the crash , only the wind |
| 29 | Until they moved to Coniston in 1801 she did not have a settled home , spending much of her time visiting friends in London , Shirley , and Bath . |
| 30 | I am afraid you do not realise the very serious implications of this affair . |