Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it , it wo n't suit everybody , you might not want , in my case I do n't particularly want to live with a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 3 | Yes chairman I 've not not really got an awful lot to add to that . |
| 4 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 5 | erm extrovert I do n't quite know about that |
| 6 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 7 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |
| 8 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 10 | However , in recent years the methodological changes outlined in Chapter I have not only reduced the relative amount of work in this field , but also transferred the focus of interest away from the fairly limited concept of land use towards not only the more abstract concept of landscape , but increasingly to behavioural studies of how we value land and landscapes . |
| 11 | ‘ So when I went into labour I had n't really thought about whether or not to have an epidural . |
| 12 | A dame I did n't even know . |
| 13 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 14 | but mummy I do n't really |
| 15 | Mummy I do n't really like those shoes . |
| 16 | ‘ You little slut ! ’ he had said through clenched teeth , his face ugly with fury — and some other emotion she had not then recognized . |
| 17 | Nothing criminal , of course ; even in her present slightly illogical and decidedly vengeful frame of mind she did n't seriously suspect Count Romano de Sciorto of criminal activity . |
| 18 | Pinned as she was beneath his weight she had n't even the leverage to free her arms or buck him off — though she tried desperately . |
| 19 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 20 | Inside the car you do n't even notice it . |
| 21 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 22 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 23 | But er communism and politics are like religion they do n't necessarily deliver the goods . |
| 24 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 25 | This murder they do not only with their bare hands but with extreme weapons , the nature of which I am unable to comprehend . |
| 26 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 27 | In practice they do not always turn out so much better , for a number of reasons . |
| 28 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 29 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 30 | There is no certain way of avoiding this difficulty when Yo is chosen arbitrarily ; but in practice it does not often arise . |