Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pers pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents may shun sport , but one could not accuse them of doing the same with education and , as Haringey 's Clarence Callynder pointed out : ‘ Some overdo it ; they push their kids too much at school . |
| 2 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 3 | Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry . |
| 4 | I certainly could not deprive them of that . |
| 5 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 6 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |
| 7 | Well , but the child had been good and she would not deprive her of saying to her friends on Monday ‘ I went to the fair ’ . |
| 8 | If your speech suffers from this defect , your teachers will not tell you of it . |
| 9 | The politicians will not tell us of what is happening to the environment . |
| 10 | I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not accuse me of ranting and raving as I am always the sweet face of reason . |
| 11 | As a result , we will advise you of the latest schedules on your Final Invoice , but we will not advise you of any timing changes at an earlier date . |
| 12 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 13 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 14 | Chronology of building forms can be established only approximately , and archaeology can not tell us of variations in the prosperity of a community from one year to the next . |
| 15 | You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him . |
| 16 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
| 17 | SECURE a job description so the boss can not accuse you of neglecting duties . |
| 18 | ‘ He can not hear us of course , ’ said Fael-Inis . |