Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes .
2 Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport
3 I tried not to let this interfere with les très riches heures de James Kirkup , but the wretchedness and misery were overwhelming .
4 In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong .
5 I tried not to give any extra weight to the explanations or justifications made by one individual rather than another .
6 I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach .
7 Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see .
8 Cos you ca n't I do n't want that on the tape .
9 But I mean often women would say , what can I do , I do n't want any more babies , what can I do ?
10 I think that 's diff you see I , I do n't think that 's possible for everybody to keep in touch with everybody else , I think you 've got to have one person , that everybody looks to , to say , right
11 I felt like deciding then and there never to get drunk again , but being so young I decided that this was probably a little unrealistic , so I determined not to get that drunk again .
12 No , because I 'm frightened o I might I have n't done that .
13 You see I have n't got any unus , I 've got stuff a bit like that , but I have n't got any anything like this .
14 Mm , what shall I have , I have n't got any more cakes left .
15 I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods .
16 I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 .
17 I try not to show any favouritism to the horses , ’ says John .
18 But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations .
19 However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable .
20 I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity .
21 I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all .
22 ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue .
23 I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible .
24 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 .
25 — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition .
26 I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter , nor do I shirk any responsibility for the actions taken by my officials or for the way in which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary handled the case .
27 In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion …
28 He said : ‘ I do not feel any mercy for the IRA .
29 So many of our dreams , however , are mixtures of fact and fantasy that I do not feel any great reliance can be placed on what seem to be insights into our former lives when we are asleep .
30 ‘ What I meant to say is , I do not feel any animosity to you , signorina . ’
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