Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better not read it immediately so — that might only start off another litany of complaints , and a strained atmosphere on Friday morning was one thing Judith wanted to avoid . |
| 2 | When you actually achieve something you tend not to mention it so much . |
| 3 | His motives aside , Locke 's actual arguments against the doctrine of innate knowledge tend not to show it false , but only unnecessary , or lacking sound support . |
| 4 | If it was , all you can do is try to make amends if this is possible , learn by your mistakes and decide not to make them again . |
| 5 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 6 | Look for the good in your stepgrandchildren and try not to compare them unfavourably with your natural grandchildren . |
| 7 | Try not to drip it everywhere though Tim . |
| 8 | Try not to keep her too long . |
| 9 | ‘ Try not to make it so obvious , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 10 | Keep your main meal light and healthy , and try not to eat it late at night . |
| 11 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 12 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 13 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 14 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 15 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |
| 16 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 17 | So when people do not listen to you , do not adopt your suggestion , do not consult you etc , assume that your behaviour was at fault , not theirs . |
| 18 | The People 's machines do not threaten us then . |
| 19 | Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends . |
| 20 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 21 | W. 's unhappy history is fully set out in the judgment of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. and I do not repeat it here . |
| 22 | ‘ Do not irritate me further , ’ he murmured . |
| 23 | They seize the kittens , carry them off , and kill them ; but do not eat them afterwards . |
| 24 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 25 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 26 | You do not strike me as ugly , nor mis-shapen , nor lacking manners . |
| 27 | However , do not throw it away . |
| 28 | Do not give it away . |
| 29 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 30 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |