Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 2 | I will not make you bring in wood and water , or feed the pig , or milk the cow . ’ |
| 3 | I did not see him come in but looked up to find him standing suddenly between two columns . |
| 4 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 5 | Why not let me poke around quietly ? |
| 6 | Would not let me stay here … |
| 7 | The parents would not let me leave home without them . ’ |
| 8 | She declared : ‘ We will not let him sit there for seven years . |
| 9 | We did not let him go upstairs , but one day Tabby found him on my bed . |
| 10 | She could not let him get close to her . |
| 11 | Now they could not let him slip away . |
| 12 | They will not let him come home because the baby has no immunity . |
| 13 | She would not let him see how much it hurt . |
| 14 | She could feel tears stinging the back of her eyes , but she would not let him see how vulnerable she was . |
| 15 | She would not let him see how much he had offended her . |
| 16 | The male does not let them drop far — he catches them as they literally shoot out of the female . |
| 17 | You must not let them level down the University , but rather use your position to level them up . ’ |
| 18 | We must not let them forget where the Party came from . |
| 19 | These periods of reflection and decision-making are important , but we must not let them get out of hand . |
| 20 | and er , er , er , and the poor are getting poorer and they will not let them get out of the poverty trap . |
| 21 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
| 22 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 23 | When you tip the seed from the packet it is hard to believe that from almost every one a plant will arise , so do not let them fall too thickly into the soil . |
| 24 | Ernest and Rosie tried to make a start on the repairs , but by then she had discovered that she was pregnant , and Ernest would not let her do any work that might involve strenuous effort . |
| 25 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 26 | ‘ And do not let her turn around . |
| 27 | If you feel this way do not let it go very long without confessing it . |
| 28 | Stapleton would not let it go out unless he thought Sir Henry was there . ’ |
| 29 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 30 | In Switzerland the gynaecologist would not let you put on too much weight because he was concerned that you 'd end up looking like an old cow and |