Example sentences of "not [verb] [pos pn] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know that the common agricultural policy has not given our farmers the return that their efficiency deserves or our housewives the food prices that they should be able to expect . |
| 2 | But Nails did not consider his lack an impediment to his plans . |
| 3 | He wondered if he should not give his Ka a name , and call it Taheb . |
| 4 | So why not give your curtains the treatment they deserve ? |
| 5 | So why not give your legs a golden glow with a little fake tan ? |
| 6 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 7 | He did not move his fingers a millimetre . |
| 8 | Millions of babies have grown up happy and healthy on formula milks and your baby will thrive if he has a mum who 's relaxed at feeds , not anxious that she 's not giving her baby the best start in life . |
| 9 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 10 | The social worker decided that the only way forward was a family meeting as the sons individually could not tell their mother the situation . |
| 11 | The fact that we have a Scottish President combined with the fact that this Division do not hold their dinners every year should guarantee an evening to remember ! |
| 12 | He said after the meeting : ‘ If the Government does not change its mind a strike looks inevitable , which would be terrible for the people of Britain . |
| 13 | The system will suspend the access rights of lexicographers who do not change their passwords every month . |
| 14 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 15 | The inquiry says he did not raise his flag an assertion he strongly denies . |
| 16 | Beau Williford , a respected Louisiana-based manager who can not get his boys the fights he wants , has started the Universal Boxing Association . |
| 17 | Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace , and take care of themselves . |
| 18 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 19 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 20 | ‘ He does n't consider his captions a sacrosanct collection of frozen moments in time , ’ Ms Calder adds , ‘ and anyway only really changes the ones that have a dated feel about them . |
| 21 | I hear you did n't have er , you did n't enjoy your liver the other day ? |
| 22 | I ca n't send my aunt a message , he thought . |
| 23 | ‘ It has n't done my reputation a whole lot of good either , ’ Polly blazed at him . |
| 24 | Spokesman David Reynolds said : ‘ Ireland is the only country in Europe that does n't give its emigrants the vote . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 26 | I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 27 | I wo n't give my children the satisfaction of burying me until there is only one of them left to perform the ceremony . ’ |
| 28 | DANGER : Do n't give your child an easy ride — the trolley could topple over |
| 29 | A pity you do n't remember my book a little better ! |
| 30 | Kirsty do n't like her dummy no more now ! |