Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pretended not to notice the mocking drawl behind his words and instead concentrated on the scenery . |
| 2 | Sally held her breath as Louise fastened the multitude of little hooks and eyes and tried not to notice the little roll of fat that squeezed out above and below it . |
| 3 | Benny tried not to feel the rough wool of the jumper at her neck . |
| 4 | The perplexing thing was that Bella , whom he had now nerved himself to telephone every other evening with news of Sam , seemed not to mind the untenable situation particularly and had taken up the flute . |
| 5 | Evans affected not to notice the sloppy touch . |
| 6 | But Rachel hated not to have the last word . |
| 7 | ‘ The praesidium decided not to support the 1990 budget and the party is against the ( government 's ) housing programme . |
| 8 | Since he could just make out where he was going , he decided not to use the front light , which in any case would be bound to draw attention to him . |
| 9 | Colchester women decided not to enter the National League for 1993–94 season , mainly for financial reasons . |
| 10 | He decided not to tell the young man where to search . |
| 11 | Conditions attached to the granting of planning permission included not demolishing the existing building until work was ready to begin on rebuilding . |
| 12 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 13 | Political parties who chose not to join the Patriotic Rally , he said , could continue to operate " within the framework of the Constitution " . |
| 14 | When I was 16 I gained GSE grade one English and chose not to accept the only job suggested , packing boxes ; instead I tried further education . |
| 15 | Three chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 16 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 17 | As devout Catholics , the O'Dells preferred not to attend the civil ceremony , but that did n't stop them doing everything they could to make the reception an unforgettable occasion . |
| 18 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 19 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 20 | The company , which is trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , did not give the nine month figures . |
| 21 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 22 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 23 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 24 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |
| 25 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 26 | So it is clear that Bukharin did not make the elementary mistake that Rosdolsky attributed to him . |
| 27 | It did not make the general pool of jobs any larger . |
| 28 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 29 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Perhaps the boat with the most character — even though it did not make the final selection — was the PDQ ; an amateur effort that can be built at home from cheap parts . |