Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one .
2 There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated .
3 Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship .
4 I did not think I noticed as the car drew level
5 The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar .
6 He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions .
7 It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that .
8 His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community .
9 Miss Andrews did not invite me to order that the sum should be paid out to Crossman Block on terms that they should not part with it without a further order of the court ; in such an event she accepted that it would be better that the sum should remain in court .
10 The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it .
11 The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor .
12 Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out .
13 If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot .
14 My conversations with her gave me no inkling to that effect , and , although she was ambitious , I do not think she felt that her time had come .
15 It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them .
16 They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win .
17 • Many poisons cause as much damage coming back up as they do going down , so do not make him vomit unless you are sure it is safe to do so .
18 It may already be obvious , however , that even the results summarized in Fig. 4.7 do not require us to conclude that the mechanism responsible for latent inhibition is quite different from that responsible for orthodox associative interference effects .
19 If you are a teacher I do not ask you to believe or take on trust anything I say .
20 About er refurbishment and closure programme Mr talked about , a a refurbishment and closure programme is a Tory programme , not a Labour programme and of course this is all verified by Mrs coming along to the committee and saying please do n't close Barleythorpe Hall , please tell the people that you 're going to re-open Barleythorpe Hall , please do not allow them to think that it 's going to close .
21 Our data do not allow us determine whether HBIG is deneficial in preventing or ameliorating recurrent HBV .
22 Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health .
23 Furthermore , I do not need you to clean while I 'm here . ’
24 Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’
25 He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ?
26 He said he did n't want her harmed until we find out what she knows about the book .
27 You did n't want them to look as well : you wanted them to look better .
28 She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one .
29 The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat .
30 The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’
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