Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 2 | and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want . |
| 3 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 4 | Even though the story reverberated through the Highlands , there is no evidence that either Boswell or Johnson knew the tale — had they done so , Boswell might have been less merry with his lubricious reasons as to why the woman would not show them the bedroom . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 6 | Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’ |
| 7 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 8 | Can you not do it the coffee break ? |
| 9 | If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price . |
| 10 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 11 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 12 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 13 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 14 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 16 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 17 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 18 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 19 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 20 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 21 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 22 | Perry offers to buy me a drink , but I will not give him the satisfaction . |
| 23 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 24 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 25 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 26 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 27 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 28 | Why not give me the letter — unless there 's anything private in it — and the woman 's address . ’ |
| 29 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 30 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |