Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 2 | Nutty had given them a thorough grounding in the process , and put out the evening feeds ready , not trusting them to get the quantities right . |
| 3 | I 'm not suggesting you know the switch |
| 4 | I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work . |
| 5 | the teacher acts as a conscience I I explained to them I 'm not expecting them to make the child do the work , but to be their conscience so they can say look you 've got three assessments coming in that week if you leave it till Friday night you 're up the creak without a paddle ! |
| 6 | But they were not doing it to supply the world 's newspapers and magazines with better pictures . |
| 7 | You 're not asking me to read the part er B at all at this stage . |
| 8 | ‘ Major , we are not asking you to start the investigation again from scratch . |
| 9 | Perhaps not letting you know the party was off was a Freudian slip . |
| 10 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 11 | I 'm not thinking it object the sitting tenants |
| 12 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 13 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 14 | He was n't doing it to advance the Allied cause . |