Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Elinor lived , Adam dared not risk flinging a monkey wrench into that dream . |
| 2 | He did not want to miss a word . |
| 3 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 4 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 5 | Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference . |
| 6 | The non-enrollers who did not want to do a course in the future gave a variety of responses but financial factors , not needing the qualification at work , and being interested only in the ‘ target ’ course were their main reasons . |
| 7 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 8 | She did not want to waste a moment of the time they would have . |
| 9 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 10 | But she did not want to become a doctor . |
| 11 | Hilda , for her , simply represented another point of view , which she did not want to get a hearing . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , building societies began to accept investments from people who did not want to buy a house , but use them as a way of investing their savings and obtaining an income in the shape of interest . |
| 13 | Tom Murray did not want to have a lot of girlfriends , but just one for good , one he could be deeply serious about . |
| 14 | As Table 15 , below , makes clear , just over three-quarters of those who replied ( 198 respondents ; 76% ) did not expect to buy a catalogue . |
| 15 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 16 | Of the 198 respondents who did not intend to purchase a catalogue , 157 ( 79% ) went on to give their reasons . |
| 17 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 18 | In the leader column last week , on the same day Young Group 's shares were suspended , the newspaper felt sufficiently confident of Mr Young 's expertise to write : ‘ He is a man who has until recently made a great success of his business and it would be sad for the North-East if he did not continue to have a part to play . ’ |
| 19 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 20 | Some did not like to face a battery of professionals . |
| 21 | Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once . |
| 22 | Using analysis of variance in unifactorial and multifactorial models , age did not seem to have a bearing on any of the parameters of esophageal function . |
| 23 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 24 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |
| 25 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |
| 26 | It did not have to have a name . |
| 27 | Darlington appeal co-ordinator Michelle Le-Neveu said donations did not have to cost a lot but should be high in nutrition like tinned fish or meat . |
| 28 | Oswald , who lives in North Road , did not plan to become a market trader . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In spite of David 's childhood marriage to the sister of the English king , Edward did not hesitate to help a Balliol descendant make a bid for the Scottish throne , driving David and Joan into exile in France after the battle of Halidon Hill near Berwick . |