Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I I do not need an adjournment but may I back away from the microphone to take instruction ? |
| 2 | I do not regard a judge who makes what an appellate court later regards as a mistake of law as abusing his powers . |
| 3 | I do not regard the United Kindom constitution as set in concrete . |
| 4 | I do not regard the Baxter alternative as a serious proposition . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I do not regard the non-renewal as representing any reduction in our commitment to ex-servicemen . |
| 6 | Ferguson said : ‘ It will be a very tight game and I do not expect the Russians to be too adventurous . |
| 7 | It is a modest proposition , but I do not expect the Minister to accept it . |
| 8 | I do not expect the Minister to say that the matter is outwith his ministerial remit . |
| 9 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
| 10 | Naturally , I do not expect the apologists on the Government Front Bench to criticise the Government 's policies , still less to condemn their actions . |
| 11 | I do not expect the Minister to be helpful — |
| 12 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 13 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 14 | I do not mean the church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity , terrible as an army with banners . |
| 15 | and again : " when I make use of the word people , I do not mean the vulgar or mixed multitude " . |
| 16 | The notoriously atheist and materialist Holbach was explicit about whom he meant by " the people " : By the word people I do not mean the stupid populace Every man who can live respectably from the income of his property and every head of a family who owns land ought to be regarded as a citizen . |
| 17 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 18 | As to interpreters , I do not speak every language of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 19 | ( i ) If I am anaesthetized I do not feel the prick of the needle . |
| 20 | Speaking for myself , I do not feel the slightest inclination to interfere . |
| 21 | ‘ I do not want a health service of spot markets and predatory hospitals and product lines . |
| 22 | I do not want a president elected or otherwise . |
| 23 | He assured congress , ‘ I do not want a honeymoon with you . |
| 24 | ‘ Lady , I do not want a wife — any wife . ’ |
| 25 | I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified : |
| 26 | ‘ I do not want the beauty to come from the material but from within myself , ’ he wrote later , taking direct responsibility for this process of redemption . |
| 27 | I do not want the comparative figures to be distorted . |
| 28 | I do not want the name of that singer , but I want the name of a singer with the same name . |
| 29 | I do not want the reader to underestimate the prodigious works of nature and the problems we face in explaining them . |
| 30 | I do not make a fuss , I do not rant and splutter . |