Example sentences of "do not [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 2 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 3 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 4 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 5 | Felix did not move and true to his word the batsman knocked him down . |
| 6 | She did not scream and weep — at least in front of him — when things went wrong and did not have a reputation for being raucous about women 's rights . |
| 7 | They did not move like shadows ; they did not shift and blur . |
| 8 | That is what happened , and we now realise that we must take away from such authorities that most unjust tool with which they managed to acquire electoral support that they did not deserve and have unscrupulously used . |
| 9 | She shook her head ( the long mane of fair hair was tied up , so it did not swish and fall over her shoulders ) . |
| 10 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 11 | Even the fires in the depths of the crater mouth had a kind of slow sly laughter in them that did not erupt and scream and tear at you as these fires did . |
| 12 | If I did not trust and live his fantasy image of myself I could no longer reach out to distorted splinters and did not know where to begin to look for myself . |
| 13 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 14 | ‘ For the last time , I did not try and seduce you . ’ |
| 15 | It is perhaps surprising that he did not count and find that he had double the actual number present , but he , too , has departed . |
| 16 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 17 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 18 | I do not sit and do that with kids . |
| 19 | Do not skimp and debase using margarine in place of butter , skimmed milk instead of cream . |
| 20 | There are no clay organisms ; and clays do not scavenge and process energy from their surroundings to keep themselves intact . |
| 21 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 22 | Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners . |
| 23 | By contrast , if we do not express and verbalise it , something is lost . |
| 24 | If leaders do not foster and bestow this freedom it will not exist , at least not for executive directors . |
| 25 | ‘ They do not visit and do not know their neighbours . |
| 26 | However , interactionists and phenomenologists believe that humans do not react and respond passively to an external society . |
| 27 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 28 | Where cast-iron columns support timber beams , the exposed surfaces of the beams may char , but they do not expand and generate lateral movements on columns as might steel beams or iron beams . |
| 29 | Do not try and rush your recovery . |
| 30 | I am against circuses with animal acts , and I do not try and stand outside a circus and stop people going in . |