Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 2 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 3 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 4 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 5 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 6 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 7 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 8 | On my board , it is easy to put this on and remove it , so the girls do not ruin it for me ! |
| 9 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 10 | The dissociation further implies that rats can detect relative spatial proximity even under circumstances in which they do not represent it in memory . |
| 11 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 12 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Do not regard me from ( the standpoint of ) your infirmity ; to you 't is night , to me that same night is morningtide . |
| 15 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 16 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 17 | It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems . |
| 18 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 19 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 20 | His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator . |
| 21 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
| 22 | Mention the most important points about the questionnaire you would use , but do not show it in full . |
| 23 | If you do not flip him off balance he can quite easily crash right into the marginal weed some distance along your own bank . |
| 24 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 25 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
| 26 | Do not prolong it beyond its allotted span , he wrote , but do not terminate it before its allotted span . |
| 27 | Although the main emphasis of the book is , as I have said , on the process of coping , rather than on the content of what needs to be coped with , nonetheless the discussion will look somewhat abstract if we do not place it within the context of the Education Reform Act and the other present or imminent changes that are around . |
| 28 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 30 | Please do not ply me with biscuits ; I have no desire to set you a bad example by pigging myself . ’ |