Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My conversations with her gave me no inkling to that effect , and , although she was ambitious , I do not think she felt that her time had come . |
| 2 | There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe she does not want him to think that she is surrendering herself too easily , ’ he suggested . |
| 4 | But he would not want you to think that he had forgotten you . |
| 5 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 6 | Fabia , not wanting him to think that she hung on his every word , turned away . |
| 7 | ‘ Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him . |
| 8 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 9 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 10 | A single trivial occurrence does not entitle you to claim that you had been constructively dismissed . |
| 11 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
| 12 | It was better not to let him know that Chris woke regularly two or three times every night . |
| 13 | With everyone in the room so happy , Seb tried hard not to let it show that he was the only one less than ecstatic over the forthcoming wedding . |
| 14 | I would not have you think that we are merely a national soup-kitchen society ! ’ |
| 15 | I would not have you think that I do not recognise the superiority of your own fine ear and finer taste . |
| 16 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 17 | It will not surprise you to learn that Eugene Wigner has been a leading proponent of this view . |
| 18 | We should also try to eat at their pace , not ours , and not allow them to feel that they are holding us up . |
| 19 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 20 | Miss Andrews did not invite me to order that the sum should be paid out to Crossman Block on terms that they should not part with it without a further order of the court ; in such an event she accepted that it would be better that the sum should remain in court . |
| 21 | He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions . |
| 22 | The existence of judicial balancing should not lead us to conclude that all such balancing is necessarily premised on the same assumptions . |
| 23 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 24 | Pains are not subject to our will , we do not choose to feel them , but this does not lead us to say that they have an existence independent of our experience of them . |
| 25 | But that should not lead us to assume that the same holds for the externalities identified here . |
| 26 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 27 | I agree with Mr. Sedley , for Messrs. Doody and Pierson , that the decision of this court in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 does not bind us to conclude that the Secretary of State is not obliged to give reasons in this respect . |
| 28 | So , if we are conscious in the sense of this analogy of levels , then it is of the uppermost level that we are conscious , but that does not require me to claim that we are always conscious of that level . |
| 29 | It may already be obvious , however , that even the results summarized in Fig. 4.7 do not require us to conclude that the mechanism responsible for latent inhibition is quite different from that responsible for orthodox associative interference effects . |
| 30 | And the Kremer result does not require us to accept that a pre-exposed stimulus inhibits a CR in the way that a CS- does . |