Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they might not know how to say it . |
| 2 | They did not know how to take it . |
| 3 | ( In fact , we do not know how to do it , but it is important that you do it well ! ) |
| 4 | She never thanked people usually and she did not know how to do it . |
| 5 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 6 | Alice did not know how to describe him . |
| 7 | She knew she had inherited something unique ; she did not know how to save it ; she found out ; and she did it , down to the last chair cover . |
| 8 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 9 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 10 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 11 | We all agree that cuts are needed but we do not know how to get them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They can get deep depressions and do not know how to express it , and it can come out in rebellion of one sort or the other , ’ said Anne . |
| 13 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 14 | She knew what Alain had said about her being the lost child , but even he did not know how lost she had been . |
| 15 | I would not know how to tell them what to do , because their disabilities might be completely different from mine , their attitudes different , their ideas different , their hopes different . |
| 16 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 17 | I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The intended contrast is between repudiating science because we can not understand how to bring it into harmony with an antecedently given substantive conception of reality , and rejecting our most general scientific theories because they are constantly surprised by experience . |
| 20 | I could not remember ever seeing her so indecisive . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
| 27 | And Papa , so sad at her going , could not mean ever to replace her . |
| 28 | When you think that the judge has got your point , do not go on repeating it . |
| 29 | Of course , I love the theatre or I would not go on doing it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When you reap your harvest in your field , and have forgotten a sheaf in the field , you shall not go back to get it ; it shall be for the sojourner , the fatherless and the widow ; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands . |