Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 2 | Nervous Tory candidate Tim Devlin admitted he did not know which way the vote would go . |
| 3 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 4 | Though the Act did not specify what form the consultation should take , Home Office guidelines were issued recommending the establishment of police consultative committees . |
| 5 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 6 | He is not told what recommendation the judiciary have made . |
| 7 | Communication will have failed if the listener does not discover which platform the train leaves from or how to load the program into the computer . |
| 8 | Millions of babies have grown up happy and healthy on formula milks and your baby will thrive if he has a mum who 's relaxed at feeds , not anxious that she 's not giving her baby the best start in life . |
| 9 | The social worker decided that the only way forward was a family meeting as the sons individually could not tell their mother the situation . |
| 10 | If C was struck by only one bullet but could not prove whose gun the bullet came from , a Canadian case has held that both A and B were liable ( Cook v Lewis [ 1952 ] 1 DLR 1 ) . |
| 11 | Yet Hunt could not say what station the broadcast came from nor upon which date it was transmitted . |
| 12 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |