Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not think her unduly burdened with worries , if you watched her crossing the campus , smiling at people she knows , her eyes bright , her brow unfurrowed . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not think you even realise the danger you walk towards so willingly . ’ |
| 3 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 4 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 5 | He had seen the Eiffel Tower so many times in photographs or on television he did not think it really existed . |
| 6 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 7 | In the cold light of the morning after , she did not think she even fancied him , could hardly bring what he looked like into focus , she had gone briefly crazy that was all , gone native . |
| 8 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 9 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 10 | They belong to owners who believe they have passed the point of no return or who simply do not want anyone else living on their land . |
| 11 | The rangers ' knowledge of the areas is extensive and they can identify most of the wildlife in the area — indeed if they see a new plant or insect which they do not recognise they normally check through their reference library when they get back to base to find out what it is . |
| 12 | He neither leered nor lunged , he did not pinch her neither did he make a sudden and late demand for hot water and a brandy to his bedroom . |
| 13 | It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose . |
| 14 | Brian did not know what else to say . |
| 15 | On the other hand , she did not know what else to say , so she said nothing . |
| 16 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 17 | They do not know what else to do . |
| 18 | Do you cling to problems because you do not know what else to think about , and what else to discuss with friends ? |
| 19 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |
| 20 | The survey did not specify what later use those tights are put to . |
| 21 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 22 | More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy . |
| 23 | If a bench of two justices can not bring themselves thus to dispose of the case there was no other sensible construction of section 9(2) then that a bench of three must become seized of the matter , rehear the evidence and comply with the statute , i.e. convict or acquit on the evidence . |
| 24 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 25 | Interesting as Luxemburg 's ideas are , they need not detain us here seeing that what I am concerned with is Bukharin 's response to them and the results of that response . |
| 26 | I will not expect anyone else to make me happy but will find it within me . |
| 27 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |
| 28 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 29 | We do not believe he just wandered up there and lay down to die . |
| 30 | Could not believe he really wanted to . |