Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
2 | I could not remember ever seeing her so indecisive . |
3 | And things that shut out light : small boxrooms , closed doors ; ‘ when I snuffed out my bedside candle ’ ; a local history of appalling sandstorms ; unfriendly adults of grim , dour mien , with tight acerbic mouths , the ‘ grey granite ’ stare of a harsh grandmother : he says , ‘ I can not remember ever hearing her use my Christian name in the vocative . ’ |
4 | Schools may , and often do , challenge society , but they can not avoid also reflecting it in the same way as revolutionaries normally rebel only against some of the characteristics of a society — others they have internalized too deeply . |
5 | Once again his arm , brown and corded , swept silencingly towards the sea and the mountains and the south , as if I might not have properly appreciated it . |
6 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
7 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
8 | And Papa , so sad at her going , could not mean ever to replace her . |
9 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
10 | It does not help just to stir it around . ’ |
11 | Our did n't stay long did he ? |
12 | And he said , they do n't make anyway do they ? |
13 | I do n't want ever to see him . |
14 | Do n't want then do we ? |
15 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
16 | She , she 's about three right , fine , okay , she 's got past toddler stage , if , you see , if , if she was three and her feet were in splint , did she wal she did n't wait there did she ? |
17 | and I 've got clumps of of snowdrops where I 'd and some where I did n't know even know I had snowdrops and |
18 | Well , we do n't know yet do we ? |
19 | Well you do n't know anyway do you ? |
20 | It 's the bit of the Gothic , except that we know that this is , well we do n't know then do we ? |
21 | You do n't know then do you ? |
22 | I did n't know though did I I thought you 'd let them cool ! |
23 | He did n't know though did he ? |
24 | Right again past Wise Crack are four short routes : Featuristic ( F7a ) , What do You Want Me To Do With It ( F7a+ ) , Do n't Matter Just Bite It ( F7a+ ) and Erotic Nightmare ( F7b+ ) . |
25 | Still get some wrong it do n't matter anyway does it . |
26 | Do n't matter then put it on the d on the rug |
27 | It does n't matter though does it if we overflow ? |
28 | I do n't finish early do I ? |
29 | But I really did n't expect then to contact me . |
30 | ‘ Do n't yow ever show yer face round 'ere agen , ’ they shouted after him . |