Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] it [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 | 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 |
| 5 | Try not to drip it everywhere though Tim . |
| 6 | ‘ Try not to make it so obvious , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 7 | Keep your main meal light and healthy , and try not to eat it late at night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , do not throw it away . |
| 14 | Do not give it away . |
| 15 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 16 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 17 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 18 | Do not spread it right to the edge or it will ooze out . |
| 19 | Since the Zande distinguish benge from ‘ ordinary ’ poisons and regard it as a mystical truth-drug , Evans-Pritchard maintains that those who employ it as an oracle do not manipulate it deliberately . |
| 20 | Do not leave it entirely to the advertising agency or the personnel department . |
| 21 | Only do not leave it too long . |
| 22 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 23 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 24 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 25 | See the impressive hump back and head of a double figure bream and you do not forget it quickly … ’ majestic ’ is the only word , as is ’ enigmatic ’ to describe their nature . |
| 26 | They also do not process it anew each time it is presented . |
| 27 | The simple models so far considered ( which illustrate rather than justify the linear differential Equation ( 3.1 ) ) approximate to the behaviour of real materials but do not describe it exactly . |
| 28 | When faced with a document , gobbet , quotation , exercise or problem , do not accept it passively , but interrogate it thoroughly . |
| 29 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 30 | Use a stick to push the soil down evenly , but do not pack it too tightly . |