Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 2 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 3 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 5 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 6 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 7 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 8 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 9 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 10 | The Prussians did not see , did not want to see , could not afford to see , this side of life in their border districts . |
| 11 | Once broken , they can only be removed by cutting through the fingerboard , a painful and delicate process which I for one would not want to see . |
| 12 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 13 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 14 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 15 | But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice . |
| 16 | I mean , fair enough , I can understand why they might not want to see Mr and Mrs Mowatt . |
| 17 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 18 | The Czech government does not want to see lots of companies go under because of a new bankruptcy law . |
| 19 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever they do will personally sadden me because I do not want to see my constituency chopped up , ’ he said . |
| 21 | She hates Odborough and does not want to see more of it than need be . |
| 22 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 23 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 24 | People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . |
| 25 | In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’ |
| 26 | It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight . |
| 27 | She did not want to see him , and did so as little as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ But he may not want to see you , ’ warned Mary , as we sat together in the kitchen . |
| 29 | She did not want to see him or speak to him . |
| 30 | She was angry enough to go into his room and accuse him ; but she thought better of it , for he was shifty and quick and , besides , she did not want to see him . |