Example sentences of "do not [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not sit and do that with kids . |
| 2 | Do not skimp and debase using margarine in place of butter , skimmed milk instead of cream . |
| 3 | There are no clay organisms ; and clays do not scavenge and process energy from their surroundings to keep themselves intact . |
| 4 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 5 | Lane has argued that ‘ ruling class ’ interpretations of the Soviet Union are inappropriate because the holders of state power do not possess and inherit property but are rather in the same market position as other wage-earners . |
| 6 | By contrast , if we do not express and verbalise it , something is lost . |
| 7 | If leaders do not foster and bestow this freedom it will not exist , at least not for executive directors . |
| 8 | ‘ They do not visit and do not know their neighbours . |
| 9 | However , interactionists and phenomenologists believe that humans do not react and respond passively to an external society . |
| 10 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 11 | Where cast-iron columns support timber beams , the exposed surfaces of the beams may char , but they do not expand and generate lateral movements on columns as might steel beams or iron beams . |
| 12 | Do not try and rush your recovery . |
| 13 | I am against circuses with animal acts , and I do not try and stand outside a circus and stop people going in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 16 | Pick someone nearby whom you do not know and study their features , their build , their colouring , the clothes they are wearing and anything else you think of . |
| 17 | When this happens , the parties do not know and have no opportunity to address the judge on the matter . |
| 18 | Allow plenty of time for them to find out what they do not know and summarize to bring together the strands of the discussion to a point where you both understand the proposed action . |
| 19 | The tuna fish swim beneath schools of dolphins , fishermen do not discriminate and scoop up the whole lot in their nets . |
| 20 | We must never forget that people do not act and make choices in a vacuum . |
| 21 | It is when we do not act and behave as Jesus ' followers that adultery can take place , followed by legal proceedings for divorce . |
| 22 | If you decide to whack , you must always finish up being the dominant one — do not hit and run . |
| 23 | You can avoid any foods you do not like and replace them with others from these lists so long as you do not exceed your daily calorie allowance . |
| 24 | There are , to point to two easily identifiable groups , the old grammar school teachers who do not like and have not mastered mixed-ability teaching ; and the old secondary modern teachers who still feel second-class citizens in the staffroom . |
| 25 | Such general concerns do not belong and do not fit into the straitjacket of a system of pressure-group lobbying and organization . |
| 26 | Particularly in secluded , well sheltered , and not so well ventilated gardens , the open centre — and perhaps also the planting distance between plants so that they do not merge and clash — is more important with Floribundas . |
| 27 | Uncut diamonds do not glitter and gleam like the cut and polished article that appears at the end of the process . |
| 28 | On the other hand do not overcompensate and regard the interviewer with a fixed stare . |
| 29 | Look at the birds of the air ; they do not sow and reap and store in barns , yet your heavenly Father feeds them . |
| 30 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |