Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 2 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 3 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 4 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 5 | Ferguson said : ‘ It will be a very tight game and I do not expect the Russians to be too adventurous . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , it is cold and I do not want it . |
| 7 | It is my home and I do not want to leave it . ’ |
| 8 | Very well , I will tell you what you ask me , and I do not want to know why you ask it . ’ |
| 9 | And I replied , ‘ Anastasiya Pavlovna , you have valued these things wrongly , and I do not want to nor can I take advantage of your ignorance ’ . |
| 10 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 11 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 12 | This is a very serious matter the election to Labour 's shadow cabinet and I do not want to believe that men would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) went through the various clauses in detail and I do not want to add to anything that he has said . |
| 14 | I made the matter clear and I do not want anyone to misunderstand . |
| 15 | There are other personalities involved and I do not want to hurt anybody . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no fight , no feud and I do not want one , either , ’ he remarked . |
| 17 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 18 | But the plain fact is that I have had a devilish run of ill luck , and I do not care for Thompson 's tariff . |
| 19 | It is no longer raining , and I do not care to talk where anyone might hear . ’ |
| 20 | And I do not care to be called that . ’ |
| 21 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 , ’ |
| 22 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 23 | That is a ground which has not been urged upon me by counsel in this case and I do not rely upon that ground only in dealing with this matter . |
| 24 | Erm and I do not detect talking to colleagues say on the right of the party , any great enthusiasm for this measure in the way it 's presently er designed . |
| 25 | Hon. Members may say that petrol stations are to be found in residential areas everywhere in the country and I do not dispute that , but in the area in question there is no shortage of petrol stations and the local people say that they do not want another one damaging their environment and that there is no need for it . |
| 26 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 27 | There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club : |
| 28 | My wife and I do not feel that we are losing Annabelle , but entrusting her to Stephen 's good care . |
| 29 | ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’ |
| 30 | And I do not give you permission to fling yourself at her feet , grab her hands and weep into her palms . |