Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 2 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 3 | At this time I do not intend relinquishing the deal . |
| 4 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 5 | Erm and I do not detect talking to colleagues say on the right of the party , any great enthusiasm for this measure in the way it 's presently er designed . |
| 6 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 7 | This is difficult , it takes time , fearlessness and optimism — it is something I do not propose embarking upon again in my life . |
| 8 | Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions . |
| 9 | I do not remember hearing the Cecilian Ode in this form before , and have to say that some of its sparkle goes with , first , the filling out of the music 's original crystal-clear textures , and second , the breaking of the marvellous marriage between Dryden 's words and Handel 's poetic setting ( for the work is , of course , done here in ‘ authentic ’ German ) . |
| 10 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 11 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 12 | I do not recall having ‘ wet-dreams ’ , but if so , then Frieda would have been the cause . |
| 13 | ‘ There will be grievous division , which I do not see resolving itself . ’ |
| 14 | I do not call halving inflation doing nothing . |
| 15 | I am sorry that he has gone , since I do not like criticising him in his absence . |
| 16 | I do not like using the telephone at the best of times and was never very fond of small-talk , that tedious lubricant for rusty little minds . |
| 17 | I do n't bother looking back to check . |
| 18 | And he goes into the non-title contest revealing : ‘ I do n't bother watching tapes of my opponents any more . |
| 19 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 20 | As long as I do n't miss seeing my beautiful Miguel . ’ |
| 21 | But I do n't miss living next door to that peculiar man , that |
| 22 | War 's been declared and all you can think about , all you can talk about is what you 're going to do if I do n't stop seeing Carrie . ’ |
| 23 | But I do n't stop trying . |
| 24 | I ca n't , I ca n't wait till ca n't wait till Christmas cos I do n't stop eating . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't go getting steaming drunk , ’ I assured him . |
| 26 | I do n't go giving people presents of burning dogs , or frighten the local toddlers with handfuls of maggots and mouthfuls of worms . |
| 27 | Joan Andrews , of Pensby , Wirral , added : ‘ I do n't go shopping in Liverpool all that often , but I do try and visit Owen Owen . |
| 28 | See when I do n't go shopping I do n't get all these I think I 've read that one . |
| 29 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 30 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |