Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school
2 I do not expect to see another version as good as Binyon 's …
3 Taking into account the length for the length of the features and the cons the consultation that take place and the length of time they take , I do not expect to see er Bungay bypass construction for some time yet , but I do expect the County Council to progress on that in such a manner that Bungay will not grind to a halt .
4 I do not expect to encounter ‘ the Lady ’ in that particular form again ; she represented a power to watch over and sustain me , and her qualities were ones that were especially lacking in my own life at that time — practicality , solidity and a refusal to get flustered .
5 I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’
6 In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art .
7 In making these remarks , I do not mean to argue that the decisions made in cases discussed in section II are necessarily wrong .
8 I do not mean to defend myself .
9 I do not mean to deny all that has happened — there are some beautiful modern buildings .
10 In calling these examples ‘ routine ’ , I do not mean to deny their importance to the receiver , nor that they may be very demanding for the giver .
11 I do not mean to distinguish here between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ ; nor am I arguing , on the basis of such a distinction , that ‘ education for leisure ’ is just as important as ‘ education for work ’ , a thesis often defended by those anxious to justify education in sports or indeed in the arts .
12 I do not mean to stray off here into the history of the Basques ; all Pyrenean history is complicated , that of the Basques very complicated .
13 Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food .
14 I do not mean to endorse pragmatism .
15 I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered .
16 But then I do not mean to imply anything derogatory about Mr Farraday ; he is , after all , an American gentleman and his ways are often very different .
17 I do not mean to imply that engineering should or could be an exact discipline .
18 In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate .
19 I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour .
20 But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
21 I do not mean to suggest that Lewis thought that the Bible was only half true .
22 I do not mean to suggest for a moment any kind of determinist philosophy here : functional rationality does not cause philosophical rationality , but it does help it along .
23 I do not mean to suggest that in every literal generation trees are taller than their counterparts in the previous generation , nor that the arms race is necessarily still going on .
24 I do not mean to suggest that Tillyard or Olivier simply undertook their tasks as part of some officially orchestrated propaganda .
25 I do not mean to suggest that this is an exclusively de Manian composite .
26 I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true .
27 I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal .
28 However , in this chapter , I do not want to tackle any of those perceptions head on .
29 I do not want to do anything to jeopardise that process .
30 I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter .
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