Example sentences of "do [conj] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoy what you can do and do n't get too worried about what you ca n't . |
| 2 | ‘ Loyalty to the Company means get the job done but do n't waste your squad . ’ |
| 3 | It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding . |
| 4 | It is also worthwhile spending time at this point examining the things that you know you can do but do n't bother with . |
| 5 | Anyone , then , who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins . |
| 6 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 7 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 8 | The facts behind this bizarre legal suit are hard to untangle : Sean did or did n't have an affair with Woods , now 44 , while they were making The Boost . |
| 9 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 10 | Like them or not , one could never be sure what Ken did or did not mean . |
| 11 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 12 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 13 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 14 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 15 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 16 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 17 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 18 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 19 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 20 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 21 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 22 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 23 | Of course , it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly why we do or do not engage in a particular action . |
| 24 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 25 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 26 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear sir , you must not tell me what I do or do not mean . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do . |
| 29 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 30 | The resulting ‘ subgovernments ’ ( Cater , 1964 , pp. 17–22 ) or ‘ iron triangles ’ have been seen as critical to an understanding of what governments actually do or do not do because of their permanence , the secrecy of their operations and the weak party system in the United States . |