Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 3 | Dersingham did not bother to look at the man . |
| 4 | It did not seem to matter at the time . |
| 5 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 6 | They passed the hill , but she did not turn to look at the graveyard . |
| 7 | He did not need to look at the single shelf of books to know they would have titles like A Pilot 's War Memoirs or Regiments of the Burma Campaign . |
| 8 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 9 | A large number wish to continue working as long as they are fit and do not want to retire at the state pension age . |
| 10 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 11 | I did n't choose to work at the complex . |
| 12 | It was rather a small one and it did n't appear to matter at the time . ’ |
| 13 | We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his . |
| 14 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 15 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 16 | mm you bring your book cos you do n't think to look at the card |
| 17 | As you say , it 's my wedding day tomorrow , I do n't want to arrive at the altar with my face in a mess . ’ |
| 18 | They 're very upset and do n't want to talk at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 20 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 21 | Wendy Phillips shows you how on page 30 and do n't forget to look at the countryside in July with Iris Bishop on page 60 . |
| 22 | Somebody , an entertainer himself , once said to me that his idea of a perfect talk show host was someone you do n't remember seeing at the end of the programme . |
| 23 | So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat . |
| 24 | You 're not in prison — you do n't have to stare at the walls . |
| 25 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 26 | It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain . |
| 27 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 28 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 29 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 30 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |