Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 2 | Convinced that they are the ideal match , these lovers who are often the offspring of divorced parents not wanting to repeat their mistakes conspire not to let anything spoil the relationship . |
| 3 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 4 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 5 | What happens if those two goons have a sudden change of heart and decide not to let us go ? |
| 6 | ‘ Try not to let yourself get so intense about everything . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , I try not to let it cramp my style unduly . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I try not to let it put me off too much . |
| 10 | They 'd driven several miles before Lucy finally ventured , ‘ Try not to let it get under your skin , Virgie . ’ |
| 11 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 12 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 13 | If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot . |
| 14 | ‘ I do not conclude he regards the PS as dead , ’ he told reporters . |
| 15 | As an eating-disorders expert explained : ‘ Bulimics do not admit they have a problem . |
| 16 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 17 | ‘ I do not pay you to have friends in rival fashion houses . ’ |
| 18 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 19 | Do not expose yourself to risk by waiting alone at bus stops or by entering single or empty carriages on trains . |
| 20 | It also helps if the fish have been well fed before photographing , because they do not associate your approaching with feeding time which gets them rushing around madly . |
| 21 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 22 | The genetic algorithms form a separate family which do not involve anything resembling neurones , but they are included here because they take their data in a very low level form , like the input to a neural net . |
| 23 | More corrugated iron and concrete and an army sign : ‘ We apologize for the delay Please do not blame us Blame the Terrorists ’ , with another smaller one beside it : ‘ Please take your little home with you ’ . |
| 24 | In a sense , we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris . |
| 25 | ‘ Given a level playing field , I do not feel we have much to fear , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The reality is that while the professional/client model is attractive , people who come into contact with mental health services often do not feel they exert the kind of influence that , for example , a person might have when he is instructing his solicitor . |
| 27 | Moreover , city Indians do not feel they need lots of children to look after them when they are old . |
| 28 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 29 | Even if you do not feel you have any of these kinds of difficulties , just how fit are you ? |
| 30 | So do not feel you have to make a fuss to get attention . |