Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , I do not think it does a college principal any harm to operate in a different framework , see how others organise themselves and bring a principal 's view to bear upon validation exercises — and possibly upon SCOTVEC itself ! |
| 2 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also gave the impression , although I do not think he made a specific statement , that he had in fact had discussions with the Biafrans . |
| 5 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not want you to say a word until you have drunk at least two glasses . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not suggesting we steal a plane ? ’ said Gurder , by this time totally horrified . |
| 8 | In order not to freeze I installed a wood-burning stove . |
| 9 | With a sort of tragic turn of fate , she did not know he had a mad wife . |
| 10 | Francis added : ‘ The chairman 's main concern is not wanting me to receive a serious injury which might prevent me from managing properly . ’ |
| 11 | That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development . |
| 12 | A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) . |
| 13 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 14 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 15 | ‘ I have observed you very closely , Alice , and I do not believe you lack a passionate side to your nature for all you choose to appear so cool and so calm . |
| 16 | Although the draft PPG purports to elaborate on the concepts of town-centre vitality and viability , we do not believe it provides a sufficiently clear explanation to avoid lengthy debates at public inquiries over these terms . |
| 17 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 18 | ‘ It would not occur me to drink a low-alcohol beer , ’ says Alison , a 23-year-old sales assistant . |
| 19 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 20 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 21 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 22 | The fact that there have not leads us to consider a possible alternative explanation . |
| 23 | I 'm sure sir you 're you 're not expecting me to make a a major contribution to this particular debate , but I felt that your the , various comments have been made around the table which would make it exactly clear where the Department stands on this issue . |
| 24 | It was , doubtless , agreeable for Mary Smith to become more Mary Smith , but that process did not enable her to find a job or make a living . |
| 25 | If they fiddle around with the short-term situation that will not enable them to win ; it will not enable them to get a better general election performance . |
| 26 | The Family Party above all would not wish us to place a premium on unorthodox styles of living … ’ |
| 27 | did she not take you to have a look ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not asking you to buy a palace , ’ said Polly . |
| 29 | Why , then , did the Department of Trade and Industry try to gag its president and not allow him to deliver a part of his speech that was mildly critical of Her Majesty 's Government ? |
| 30 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |