Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age . |
| 2 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 3 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 4 | It should not pause to sniff at the scents of other dogs , at the same time remaining very responsive to its owner 's instructions , adjusting its stance slightly , perhaps , to show off its finer points . |
| 5 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 6 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 7 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 8 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 9 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 10 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 11 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 12 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 13 | It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain . |
| 14 | Dersingham did not bother to look at the man . |
| 15 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 16 | It did not seem to matter at the time . |
| 17 | The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism . |
| 18 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 19 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 20 | Penelope could not help smiling at the formality of his words . |
| 21 | Harry could not help smiling at the boy 's excessive politeness . |
| 22 | They passed the hill , but she did not turn to look at the graveyard . |
| 23 | They 're very upset and do n't want to talk at the moment . |
| 24 | As you say , it 's my wedding day tomorrow , I do n't want to arrive at the altar with my face in a mess . ’ |
| 25 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 26 | mm you bring your book cos you do n't think to look at the card |
| 27 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 28 | It was rather a small one and it did n't appear to matter at the time . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't choose to work at the complex . |
| 30 | Somebody , an entertainer himself , once said to me that his idea of a perfect talk show host was someone you do n't remember seeing at the end of the programme . |