Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb base] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him .
2 ‘ Mrs. Bihi and the party she represents do not call for payment out to them of the sum presently in court .
3 She says do not worry , but it 's wiser to be on the safe side .
4 And she said do not call me Naomi !
5 In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important .
6 But , CIPP said , ‘ a number of officers we interviewed do not understand these needs . ’
7 It has to be done evenly across the board , in the rural and urban areas , or else we will fight every tooth and nail to make sure that we , our schools that we represent do not suffer .
8 Those who must let them enter do not like the work , for they fear what sidles in at the same time — the jealousies , the old rows and the suspicion of old fraud .
9 They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time .
10 It is true that the materials they hold do not embrace the full range of information that future historians would wish to have at their disposal , but the expertise and experience that they have established should not be under-estimated .
11 The certificates they obtain do not specify the centre as Maidstone Prison ; they can be safely shown to employers and are much prized .
12 find that 25 per cent of the twenty-eight psychology of women books they analyse do not mention black women .
13 Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches .
14 For example , the performance of the hon. Gentleman 's authority , Sheffield , was markedly inferior to that of Rotherham , although the discrepancies of the sort that he described do not exist in those two authorities .
15 One said : " The law of England is indeed , as Blackstone declared , a law of liberty ; but the freedoms it recognises do not include a licence for the mercenary betrayal of business confidences . "
16 The rare books on this subject which make it to press do not remain in the shops .
17 A Whitbread spokesman said its deals , which he said do not include supply agreements , were different from the one between Allied Lyons and Brent Walker .
18 Glass as shadow of fourth dimension he wrote Patience , he wrote Do not run ahead of yourself .
19 Secondly , an examiner tends to be grudging in his marks for book-work questions , which he knows do not require much intelligence in the answering .
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