Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [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 | If the police were sufficiently confident of their case against Sykes , surely they would not hesitate to take him into custody ? |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 8 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 11 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of the water in very deep aquifers may not have entered them as rain . |
| 16 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The half-day course on the Census introduces the problems but does not attempt to discuss them in depth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since France did not receive any substantial support for this scheme it did not try to propose it on behalf of the EEC . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This , of course , caught the attention of many journalists , and St Mary 's did not fail to provide them with information . |
| 25 | It would be dangerous pinning Ebert down and he did n't want to put her at risk . |
| 26 | I do n't want to put you in danger . ’ |
| 27 | There ca n't be a man alive who sees you and does n't want to take you to bed , who does n't wonder what you 're like , although some might be able to resist the temptation to try and find out once they realise what you are . |
| 28 | And I did n't want to trouble you at work . |
| 29 | She wished he 'd quit doing that to her hand — but she did n't want to move it in case he moved on to her lips . |
| 30 | I think for a bit about going to ask him how I get home but I do n't want to ask him in case he tells Mr Jackson . |