Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 2 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 3 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 4 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 5 | In the present case I do not agree with Mann L.J. , with all respect to him , that there is any great difficulty in defining the persons from whom , applying the principle to which I have just referred , the decision-making authority might be required to seek representations . |
| 6 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 7 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 8 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 9 | No , this afternoon I do not think so . |
| 10 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 11 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 12 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 13 | In any event for my part I do not think that such a limitation exists . |
| 14 | But for my part I do not think that this is a complete analysis . |
| 15 | At present I do not seem able to print out both using the one driver . |
| 16 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 17 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 18 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 19 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 20 | Thank you for doing a talk I did not feel up to . |
| 21 | To excuse my ineptitude I did not enlighten him . |
| 22 | I must admit this is the fence I do not want to jump , for though I know there are new novels that succeed , I am at something of a loss to describe , in reasonable critical terms , why they succeed . |
| 23 | Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances . |
| 24 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 25 | What the psychiatrists or psychoanalysts make of this condition I do not know . |
| 26 | ‘ That remedy I do not offer , ’ said the Arab . |
| 27 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 28 | She said , with a flippancy she did not feel , ‘ Are you thinking in terms of hours , perhaps ? |
| 29 | When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map . |
| 30 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |