Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police spokesman , Roger Busby , said yesterday : ‘ We are becoming increasingly frustrated that ideal weather conditions do not appear to ever occur . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We do not want to just duplicate the work of other organisations , such as the Regular Forces Employment Agency , which has started to operate in the area . ’ |
| 3 | If you do not want to actually volunteer for a specific charity but would like to offer your services generally to whoever may need them , then phone the Volunteer Co-ordinator , who will match you up with all sorts of jobs . |
| 4 | You do not have to immediately join a group — it may not be what you want anyway and there is more about different options later . |
| 5 | Do n't keep telling me I do n't want to fucking know |
| 6 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 7 | If you do n't want to just leave it and I just |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , Delia , we 've had such a long association and a successful one , I 'd like to think , well , I do n't want to just lose touch . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You are everything I want and need , you fulfil my every fantasy , and I do n't want to even think of life without you . |
| 11 | erm we do n't want to not get our tea and coffee |
| 12 | Mountain bikes do n't have guards because if you 're using them on wet and muddy terrain you do n't want to constantly have to stop to unclog the wheels . |
| 13 | But does that stop the problem if if we report someone for depositing litter I E a settee , I mean they do n't want to really deposit it there , is it quality of life that 's forced them to do it . |
| 14 | I just do n't want to ever make any more mistakes again . |
| 15 | Not an obsession , but I do n't want to ever get like that again . |
| 16 | Do n't want to ever come back ; can you phone Chambers and tell them I 've perished on a mountain , and then I can change my identity , and disguise myself as one of the locals and no-one will be any the wiser . |
| 17 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 18 | Erm you do n't have to exactly understand the tools that you 're using and how they work but |
| 19 | For instance , if you add the switch ‘ /auto ’ to the device driver command line in CONFIG.SYS , it will not load if it ca n't find a server , which saves you some memory , and also means that you do n't have to repeatedly edit the config file . |
| 20 | Not really my i idea of a journey is to get there in your own time , you do n't have to fucking speed everywhere ! |
| 21 | Electronic bite alarms have been invented so the fishermen do n't have to even watch a float . |
| 22 | You do n't have to even know until you pass your grade one . |
| 23 | Yeah you do n't have to even put it anywhere . |
| 24 | I 'm not saying that 's not , but that 's the reason bloody vegetarian 's again all people who do something that they do n't have to always shout about it and try and turn every one else like it |
| 25 | Teenagers do n't seem to understand that they do n't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people . |
| 26 | In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig . |
| 27 | You do n't have to actually look at the price list and say oh well I 'll have a back and shoulder massage , which is ten pound , you do n't have to have anything for ten pound , you can have it as little as five pounds , two pound fifty , we do n't mind , it can go towards a treatment . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't have to actually believe it , just be it . ’ |
| 29 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 30 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |