Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to do it in front of the crowd . |
| 2 | Greeks with money do not want to put it into building factories . |
| 3 | For the most delicate lake systems of Sweden and Norway even a 100 per cent reduction in deposition is not expected to return them to life ; 3–7 per cent of the lakes in Norway 's 1,000 lake study are in this super-sensitive category with a ‘ zero alkalinity ’ at 100 per cent reduction , and will require liming . |
| 4 | Distamycin A tends to lack stability in aqueous solution and it is not recommended to store it in solution . |
| 5 | If the police were sufficiently confident of their case against Sykes , surely they would not hesitate to take him into custody ? |
| 6 | In the event of you wishing to let your property please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone for further details of our services , at any of the undermentioned offices : |
| 7 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 8 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not going to make it to retirement taking risks like that , ’ Benny chastised him . |
| 10 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 11 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 12 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 13 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 14 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 15 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 16 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 17 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 18 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 19 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 20 | Some of the water in very deep aquifers may not have entered them as rain . |
| 21 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 22 | But the man whose failure to think is morally culpable , is distinguishable from such blameless defendants and it may be that the courts will not wish to exclude him from liability . |
| 23 | The half-day course on the Census introduces the problems but does not attempt to discuss them in depth . |
| 24 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 25 | Since France did not receive any substantial support for this scheme it did not try to propose it on behalf of the EEC . |
| 26 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 27 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 28 | It seems to me indisputable that , in our culture , adolescence constitutes just such a crisis — perhaps for many people the major one — but because it is one with which we are all familiar , I do not intend to delineate it in detail . |
| 29 | Mrs said th , there 's too much of a confidential nature goes on in school and , I 'm not allowed to do it at school . |
| 30 | Dad 's not allowed to take it to work unfortunately so |