Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 2 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 3 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 4 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 5 | I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men . |
| 6 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 7 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 8 | So if you start using scare quotes , it may be the words you do not put them round which become the problem . |
| 9 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 10 | Unlike plants and animals we do not have to go to bed with the sun or to get up at each high tide ; our man-made environment is based on a 24-hour solar day of course , but it need not be timed to coincide with sunrise or sunset . |
| 11 | In our list of authors we did not include Enid Blyton or Captain W. E. Johns , author of the Biggles stories . |
| 12 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 13 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 14 | There were other voices we did not recognize . |
| 15 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 16 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 17 | In each country , a random sample of the electorate were questioned about their attitudes towards the political process — their perceived ability to affect political change , their participation in various political activities , their attitude towards parties they did not support and so on . |
| 18 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 19 | Unlike his brothers he did not seem able to get himself together ; wasted his time at university , married very young , came to London , did this job and that ; wrote a book that was noticed but made no money , then another , a jaunty and irreverent account of a journalist 's career in the provinces . |
| 20 | Did he survive because he was essentially provincial , unable to compete with the main creators of his own day , disregarded because in their eyes he did not count for much anyway ? |
| 21 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 22 | And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat . |
| 23 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 24 | Certainly those who worked in the Cages he did not wish to like at all , but among the people who came by the Cages were some who came regularly , day after day , and they seemed all right to him . |
| 25 | All I said simply slid off the shell into which he retreated when confronted by words he did not want to hear . |
| 26 | In other words it does not tell us whether he cut the rope above or below himself . |
| 27 | It does not format modules in charge code order , in other words it does not fill the volume for a particular charge code before moving on to the volume for the next charge code . |
| 28 | In other words it does not use theory to activate the crucial process of mediation . |
| 29 | Pictures he did not wish to see passed before him in dazzling procession . |
| 30 | At parties he does not join in and he gets very upset when you try to do anything with him because he gets frustrated . ’ |