Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] " 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 | Time , you old gypsy man , Will you not stay Put up your caravan Just for one day ? |
| 7 | The balls of course would not stay put , and followed their pirouetting owners down to the front of the stage , with every intention of dropping into the auditorium . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The health authority does not exist to service nursing homes , so there must be a charge for these services . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 14 | A BOAT skipper who took £100,000 in bookings for a ferry service which did not exist has been jailed for 15 months . |
| 15 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 16 | As for the medical practitioner before the discovery of antibiotics , what did not exist did not have to be taken into account . |
| 17 | On this construction , which I do not think does violence to paragraphs 17 and 18 , the judgment as a whole is completely consistent . |
| 18 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 19 | That contemporary account did not think to mention the 160 exhibition buildings connected by canals which were plied by gondolas and steam boats . |
| 20 | She did not think to move . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 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 | As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They responded differently to moral dilemmas they were likely to encounter themselves : they were reluctant to report drug dealers and did not think shoplifting a serious crime . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 29 | NEWCASTLE did not rush to reinstate experienced Brian Kilcline recently — and no wonder with young Steve Howey blossoming at the back . |
| 30 | He did not rush to console Alfred , however . |