Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 2 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 3 | Henry did not want to talk about the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre . |
| 4 | No wonder the right hon. Gentleman did not want to talk about the Bill . |
| 5 | He did not want to talk about the woman in Dundalk , though , the double life , the scenes and drunken violence . |
| 6 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 7 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not want to call off the current tour because it would have created immense resentment back home among the players . |
| 9 | Rain did not want to explain to the others . |
| 10 | The weekly paper for the young and independent , published today , asked 500 12 to 15-year-olds how happy they were at home and 79 per cent said they did not want to leave before the age of 18 . |
| 11 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 12 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 13 | At first Lindy did not want to go over the wall . |
| 14 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |
| 15 | Observers see the Royal couple no longer enjoy each other 's company and reports reveal Diana did not want to go on the trip . |
| 16 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 17 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 18 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 19 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 20 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 21 | ‘ Your father did not want to pay for the doctor , while the priest 'e comes free ! |
| 22 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 23 | I did not want to enter into an affirmative dialogue with the building . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 26 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 27 | I did not want to appear like a delivery man . |
| 28 | She explained that she was often lonely , living in a new district , but did not want to interfere with the family , who had their own lives to lead . |
| 29 | Martin Browne had suggested to him that he might like to revise certain scenes for this new production , but Eliot declined the opportunity — he did not want to tamper with the play , because he would have felt compelled to make further and extensive changes . |
| 30 | He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening . |