Example sentences of "do not [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 3 | I enclose a Statement showing the approximate sums involved in connection with your purchase but you will appreciate that these to do not take into account any apportionment of general and water rates . |
| 4 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 5 | When he was reviled , he did not revile in return ; When he suffered he did not threaten But trusted to him who judges justly . |
| 6 | Wilson in particular did not shine in comparison . |
| 7 | But , in any case , I should have realized that a review of high seriousness like The Criterion , the circulation of which never reached 1,000 copies and I suspect hardly more than 500 , was supported by an intellectual minority whose allegiance did not wane on account of the neglect of a man of whom many may not have heard . |
| 8 | What he did not give in response to the many points made by my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) were absolute guarantees and reassurance for the people who work for the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 9 | Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy . |
| 10 | This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding . |
| 11 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 12 | Maisie was also guilty of one of Al-Kaysi 's key errors , leaving the house excessively — a practice he quite clearly did not relish in women . |
| 13 | By offering better wages in Israel it placed an obstacle in the way of local industry , which did not benefit from subsidies or other forms of assistance enjoyed by Israeli industry . |
| 14 | The tests show people with symptomless HIV did not benefit in terms of survival or spread of the disease , whether they took the drug immediately on diagnosis or waited for the onset of infection . |
| 15 | Did not perish from starvation was |
| 16 | The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework . |
| 17 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 18 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |
| 19 | The number of community psychiatric nurses in Newham was less than half that of Ipswich , and the hospital social workers did not intervene in cases where a client had not been an inpatient . |
| 20 | He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did . |
| 21 | The dean 's daughter did not care for shell-fish , so they were forced to start dinner with caviare . |
| 22 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 23 | Dorothy did not care for books , so Helen became a librarian . |
| 24 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 25 | She took no interest in Rain but this time she did not care about Oliver either , or anyone else . |
| 26 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 27 | The studies reported in this table did not control for maturity or seasonality effects in the distribution , that is , they studied the distribution of futures price changes or returns across all seasons of the year and for a variety of contract maturities ( maturity effects on the distribution are discussed in Chapter 8 , while seasonality effects are considered in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 28 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 29 | Only 4 amino acids did not match with the human sequence , whereas 9 amino acids did not match with mouse peptide . |
| 30 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |