Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm angry with someone I love and trust , I can express my anger in tears with them ; if I am angry with someone I do not love , then I withhold my tears — to be expressed later , in a safe situation , or not at all . |
| 2 | Or her attacker may have been someone she did not expect . |
| 3 | First she got someone she did not know , then she got Marshall and finally she got Wickham . |
| 4 | Someone she did not know . |
| 5 | John 's grandmother , Betty Hind , lived there and she was quite famous in the dale as someone you did not trifle with . |
| 6 | ‘ We do have a spyhole in the door but because we were expecting someone we did not use it . |
| 7 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 8 | The girl remained unseen , but the man emerged a moment later , his eyes , as they caught Huy 's , switching from initial guilt to fraternal collusion as he saw that Huy was someone he did not know . |
| 9 | He mumbled something I did not hear . |
| 10 | I knew that the throat mike would take the strain , I intended to wear it in the front of my hair , as originated by the cast of Les Miserables , not as Joyce wore hers — at the throat — as TV presenters wear them , on the lapel — which in any case was something I did not have . |
| 11 | This is difficult , it takes time , fearlessness and optimism — it is something I do not propose embarking upon again in my life . |
| 12 | ‘ Something I do not understand . ’ |
| 13 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 14 | the other one I do not love |
| 15 | One I did not like but Alexander was headstrong . |
| 16 | Next one I did not complete the survey not because people were away , if people were absent that 's not your fault , what reasons might there be for you not completing the survey , hands up |
| 17 | The villa is very beautiful and large and it has been possible for myself and my baby and my husband to stay together which is a very great privilege and one I did not look to have extended to me . |
| 18 | Barbara knows all this , but nothing will deter her from blaming Ben for everything she does not like . ’ |
| 19 | He grunted something she did not catch . |
| 20 | That they were carrying something she did not doubt , for they moved slowly , carefully , as if bearing some precious burden … |
| 21 | As for Miguel , he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand . |
| 22 | She was crying now , greedy for him again , desperate for something she did not understand . |
| 23 | Empson 's criticism never looked merely talented , and it hit something you did not know was there . |
| 24 | If your child does something you do not like , such as losing her temper too easily , you may increase her ability to think first and hold her temper by penalizing her consistently for failing to do so ; in this way you are providing an ‘ incentive ’ for her efforts to keep her cool . |
| 25 | In answering such questions , computer simulation is helpful , because you can not simulate something you do not understand . |
| 26 | Do n't try and answer something you do not understand in the hope that you can work it out as you go along . |
| 27 | The only one she did not know was Inspector Lane . |
| 28 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 29 | This is something we did not enjoy before the agreement . |
| 30 | Clearly this is something we do not wish to be associated with ; we can only imagine they are trying to get some kind of spurious respectability by using our name . |