Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 2 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 3 | He does not misuse freedom , and he does not expect us to either . |
| 4 | Unlike the Full Plans method , the use of the Building Notice procedure does not entitle you to any documentary proof from your council that your proposal is satisfactory , or that the work will be accepted by the Buildings Control Officer who is required to inspect the work as it proceeds . |
| 5 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 6 | Once I speak with her , tell her the truth , she will surely not force me to this marriage . ’ |
| 7 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 8 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 9 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 10 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 11 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 12 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 13 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |
| 14 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 15 | Imogen refused to go with him and would not allow you to either . ’ |
| 16 | When you pay good money for a standard rose , you do n't expose it to this kind of danger for the sake of short-lived appearances . |
| 17 | Even if you ca n't make it to this Aladdin 's cave of a track where diners have access to all the latest betting news at the touch of a button , there 's always the 0891 numbers . |
| 18 | I did n't introduce him to either of those things , his father Albert paints and my husband took it from him . |
| 19 | Do n't give it to any other person . |
| 20 | I could n't keep him to any particular point — he kept slipping from one subject to another without seeming to realize it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But it wo n't take you to any of the local castles . |
| 22 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 23 | I would n't mention it to another soul . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't put you to that trouble . |
| 25 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 26 | If she had n't subjected her to that late-night journey , with all the upheavals that had accompanied it , perhaps the poor child would not have fallen ill . |
| 27 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 28 | That I have much more of this world 's goods than Garry will ever have could n't help you to that decision , could it ? ’ he said , and her heart sank at the cynical twist to his mouth and his bitter tone . |