Example sentences of "not [verb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With climbers , I 've always believed in the more the merrier , but it 's important to team up your plants so that one does not swamp and ruin another . |
| 2 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 3 | No approach to professional support and development , still less an account of ‘ good practice ’ , can afford not to identify and confront these . |
| 4 | If leaders do not foster and bestow this freedom it will not exist , at least not for executive directors . |
| 5 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 6 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 7 | Not to emit and receive these sounds constantly might be our equivalent of the sun 's disappearance at night , of someone switching the light off , or of partially shutting one 's eyes , though these creatures are also supremely aware of externally generated sounds . |
| 8 | I do not sit and do that with kids . |
| 9 | Roland felt a huge irritability mounting inside himself , mild though he knew himself to be , compounded of distress at hearing Lady Bailey 's faded voice stammer across Randolph Henry Ash 's prose , which sang in his head , reconstituted , and also of frustration because he could not seize and explore these folded paper time-bombs . |