Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows what I did not do ! |
| 2 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 3 | I knew that both those therapies were designed to attack the cancer cells , the ‘ rogue ’ cells in the body ; what I did not realise was the cost at which they can do it . |
| 4 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 5 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 6 | What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists . |
| 7 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 8 | I beat a heavy retreat : what I did not want to do was find out what the locals were like . |
| 9 | More positively , I was being given what I did not want ( which amounted to being given nothing ) and being classified as what I was not ( which amounted to being classified as nothing ) . |
| 10 | I followed , even more warily , and my eyes confirmed what I did not want to believe . |
| 11 | At first , I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear . |
| 12 | What I did not expect to find — and what I did find — was a strong Roman impact on the intellectual relations between Greeks and Jews or Celts or Iranians as soon as Roman power began to be felt outside Italy in the second century B.C. The influence of Rome on the minds of those who came into contact with it was quick and strong . |
| 13 | ‘ I always knew we could score from a set piece , but what I did not expect was to concede two from set-pieces , ’ reflected manager Nigel Best . |
| 14 | What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science . |
| 15 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 16 | What I did not know was that Vivien Eliot was in the audience . |
| 17 | And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us |
| 18 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 19 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 20 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 21 | ‘ What I do not understand is where is the water ? |
| 22 | What I do not understand is why you do n't love me . ’ |
| 23 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 24 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 25 | What she does not like , of course , is a stiff cross-wind on a hard runway — vintage aeroplanes were n't designed to fly in such a restricted manner — so she will need to be treated with respect , both by her pilots and the relevant ATC facilities , should such a set of circumstances be encountered . |
| 26 | Then Maggie heard what she did not want to hear ; she heard Rachel , who was always so controlled , so strong , so clear , she heard Rachel whimpering , begging , |
| 27 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 28 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 29 | What she did not say — what she could not say — was that the cold high days with their lengthening light terrified her . |
| 30 | She saw unshadowed earth in yellow light , more vines , new shoots of what she did not recognise as young maize . |