Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 2 | Apparently it 's like sucking I du n no salty warm yogurt . |
| 3 | I du n no dear cos I do n't think I 've got any money . |
| 4 | Er rounders which is er similar to er I du n no American baseball in , in a fashion is n't it ? |
| 5 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 6 | It is unacceptable to have headage limits for sheep — I do not mean new headage limits , but the present ones — because they do not deal with the problem . |
| 7 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 8 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 9 | If they are held in overcrowded conditions , unfit for a dog to live in , and have no meaningful occupation — I do not mean soulless , non-productive work — they have no alternative but to fall into mischief and cause trouble . |
| 10 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 11 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 12 | In fact , barring these two statements by Mr Kinnock , the parties have confined themselves to offering me choices which I do not feel competent to make . |
| 13 | I do not feel competitive with Pamela as I do with other women , because Pam , in her unwitting splendour , is not pretty as other women are . |
| 14 | The conference was helpful in suggesting ways to act and by providing solidarity so that I do not feel alone . |
| 15 | My people , I do not feel powerless . |
| 16 | I do not feel able to postpone an order for possession for more than a very short time indeed . |
| 17 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 18 | I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation . |
| 19 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 20 | I do not want central Government to say how many teachers should be at a school in Barnet or how much should be spent on books in Barnet . |
| 21 | But I do not seduce twenty-four-year-old virgins every other day , Caroline … ’ |
| 22 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
| 23 | I do not love econometric models that much ; I just take note of them . |
| 24 | I do not advise frozen haddock fillets for this paste . |
| 25 | We were reminded that before he became party leader , Neil Kinnock had said , in relation to Peter Tatchell , ‘ I am not in favour of witch-hunts but I do not mistake bloody witches for fairies . ’ |
| 26 | I do not decry systematic nomenclature , it has an important place in chemical literature ; but this is a specialist niche , devised for the convenience of indexers and users of indices , not a part of the lingua franca of chemistry . |
| 27 | They were written during the thirties , but much of it would still be up to date — after all , I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly . |
| 28 | I do not propose future reductions in the light of the disintegration of the Soviet Union , and given the continuing instability in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 29 | Therefore I do not take kindly to slander that Pink Floyd or even Mike Oldfield are unwelcome icons . |
| 30 | I hope I do not fall asleep . |