Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not boast of my conquests ; I do not need to . |
2 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
3 | I do not mean of course that there is no tradition of love in marriage . |
4 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
5 | ‘ But I do not mean to ! ’ |
6 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
7 | I do not mean by that someone who stands in front of a class of children , but a person who is able to pass on wisdom and knowledge to others . |
8 | I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects . |
9 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
10 | I do not arrive at this conclusion lightly , but through years of painstaking research and at no small cost to my health . |
11 | I do not speak of it very much . |
12 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
13 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
14 | I do not feel as if I am well ; I 've got no energy , I 'm always cold , my fingers and toes are a weird shade of blue , and I know I spend a huge amount of time thinking about food . |
15 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
16 | ‘ Although I pity my wife , I do not feel under any obligation to remain faithful to her . |
17 | I do not suffer from a lack of ambition , I simply accept life as it is . ’ |
18 | I do not vote for him , of course . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
21 | Mr Winterton added : ‘ I do not want to be bitter or vindictive . |
22 | I do not want to be seen as a liability to you . |
23 | And I replied , ‘ Anastasiya Pavlovna , you have valued these things wrongly , and I do not want to nor can I take advantage of your ignorance ’ . |
24 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
25 | I do not want to be misunderstood . |
26 | I do not want to be part of some supposedly dominant united states of Europe which , it is argued , would exert a similar influence to the United States of America and the now defunct USSR in world affairs . |
27 | I do not want to be predictable , because the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) does not like people to be predictable . |
28 | No it 's not going on loud Charlotte , I do not want to be deafened by Michael Jackson thank you , I think that 's quite loud enough |
29 | I do not wake in the night , I am a sound sleeper . |
30 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |