Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 2 | Catalogues and mail order services share the disadvantages of offering a limited selection , and , more importantly , not allowing you the chance to examine the item until it arrives at the door . |
| 3 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 4 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 5 | We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need . |
| 6 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 7 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 9 | We still do not know what the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht are . |
| 10 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 11 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 12 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 13 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 14 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 15 | I do not know what the hilarity is about , but please carry on . |
| 16 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 17 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 18 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |
| 20 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 21 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 22 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 23 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 24 | Hankin , as well as the players , press and supporters , do not know what the future holds . |
| 25 | Scott replied : ‘ I do not know what the future may hold , but authorities have no power to provide cash now ’ . |
| 26 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 27 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 28 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |
| 29 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 30 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |