Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] " 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 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You will not stay to watch me skate ? ’ |
| 5 | I must not stay to tell you his sweet sayings , save one . |
| 6 | These do not exist to deal with virtually non-existent external challenges , but are necessary because the implicit justifiers of monarchy also possess the ideological wherewithal for implicit criticism . |
| 7 | The health authority does not exist to service nursing homes , so there must be a charge for these services . |
| 8 | In the developed countries of the world , the UK and the USA represent the ‘ flexible ’ view of financial reporting : accounting standards exist to narrow the areas of difference ; they do not exist to eliminate them . |
| 9 | Many commentaries without such an explicit and analytical statement , bewail the lack of political will , expertise or rational planning , without offering any explanation as to why these qualities frequently do not exist to carry out effective conservation . |
| 10 | If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make . |
| 11 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 12 | Besides , advanced treatment — a process of extra filtration , biological decomposition and chemical treatment — squeezes out more phosphorus but is not proven to reduce large amounts of nitrogen . |
| 13 | LAUSD will remove all teachers not planning to further their education along with teachers who have not proven to have a passionate concern for the students . |
| 14 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 15 | At first it is not easy … we usually find that we have completed the task at hand and then we remember that we have not stopped to think first . |
| 16 | Our minds are so full of the ‘ pre-packaged ’ message that we have not stopped to think how it relates to those for whom it is intended . |
| 17 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 18 | ‘ And she may easily choose not to continue to do it . |
| 19 | And if you do n't resign then there 's no reason for you not to continue to act as adviser to Carlisle Flint . |
| 20 | That contemporary account did not think to mention the 160 exhibition buildings connected by canals which were plied by gondolas and steam boats . |
| 21 | She did not think to move . |
| 22 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 23 | At the moment , the number of people suffering from flu in Scotland is nowhere near those levels , but one or two football managers may well be feeling ‘ as sick as a parrot ’ because they did not think to have their highly-priced investments vaccinated before the winter began . |
| 24 | So did the amusing little sag of her incipient double chin , the veining on her cheeks ( which , unlike Alix , she does not think to cover with Liquid Foundation ) , the slight plump soft dimpling of her upper arm , the raised veins in the backs of her hands , the broadening of her hips , the decreasing flexibility of her joints . |
| 25 | I did not think to emulate Mr Gladstone , who is reputed to have put tea in a stone ‘ pig ’ and then drunk it after the chill had been taken off the sheets . |
| 26 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 27 | NEWCASTLE did not rush to reinstate experienced Brian Kilcline recently — and no wonder with young Steve Howey blossoming at the back . |
| 28 | He did not rush to console Alfred , however . |
| 29 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 30 | With banks and building society savings , a large number of people have not registered to receive their interest gross . |