Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [not/n't] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods . |
| 3 | ‘ I try not to show any favouritism to the horses , ’ says John . |
| 4 | ‘ For personal reasons I prefer not to spend another night here in Denmark . |
| 5 | I prefer not to call this ‘ creative writing ’ , since the late-Romantic ideological implications of ‘ creative ’ are irrelevant , even undesirable . |
| 6 | I prefer not to express any concluded opinion on this point … |
| 7 | By shutting this door to exclude fear , even if you have to do it a million times , you are making the statement that you decide not to let that thought feed on your life 's energy . |
| 8 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 9 | You have n't to say that these days . |
| 10 | But you have n't to let either of them get the better of you ! |
| 11 | We tend not to notice this because in TNC the curriculum proposals came before the discussion of testing and assessment . |
| 12 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 13 | So you can do that but in the main we try not to have any loose ends on er an assignment . |
| 14 | ’ We prefer not to reveal that , ’ said the Ardakkean man next to her . |
| 15 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 16 | They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile . |
| 17 | Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity ! |
| 18 | Wherever possible they try not to have that but you may have to stay away . |