Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 2 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 3 | I do not think we do this . ’ |
| 4 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 5 | If lawyers think a particular proposition about legislation is true by convention , they will not think they need any substantive reason for accepting it . |
| 6 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 7 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 8 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 9 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 10 | He was now , in any case , extremely happy ; " I 'm the luckiest man in the world , " he told Robert Giroux , and to Joseph Chiari he said that he did not think he deserved such happiness . |
| 11 | It did not make him feel any cleaner . |
| 12 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 13 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 14 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 15 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 16 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 17 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 18 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 19 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 20 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 21 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 22 | We do not want them to inherit all our problems when it is their responsibility to create the wealth and care for the increased number of elderly and aged people in this country . |
| 23 | He did not want anything to go wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ On the train from Harwich to London our cases were taken away as our guarantors did not want us wearing funny clothes , ’ one girl remembers . |
| 25 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 26 | Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next . |
| 27 | But the Mason would not trust them to keep silent about the Miracle Pageant . |
| 28 | Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do . |
| 29 | The more able pupils often produce stereotypical work which may generate the ‘ right ’ answer but may not stimulate them to ask further questions . |
| 30 | You do not need anyone to do this for you . |