Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often people who share your compartment wish to relax and do not wish to indulge in polite conversation , they may just want to read a newspaper or magazine so we must respect their wishes . |
| 2 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 3 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 4 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 5 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 6 | He wanted her to go , and she felt afraid as she realised that she did not want to go at all . |
| 7 | Because Irina did not want to travel in one of the carts , Jehan had taken her up in front of him . |
| 8 | I did not want to think about that yet . |
| 9 | He did not want to enter into that precarious optimism . |
| 10 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 11 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 12 | However , I did not want to write about one single instance , one particular community . |
| 13 | Nicholas certainly did not want to fight alone , and probably did not want to fight at all . |
| 14 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 15 | ‘ Ken Barlow is one character I did not expect to survive for any great length of time , ’ said the Street 's creator Warren , 55 . |
| 16 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 17 | I read in the December issue of Credit Management that council , at its October meeting , decided the 1992 subscription rates and also to penalise those who did not choose to pay by direct debit . |
| 18 | If tax-relief-induced donations did not go to pay for mainline social service functions and elected representatives still felt it necessary to continue to provide them , they would have a lower tax base on which to raise the revenue . |
| 19 | Mitchell 's ( 1950 ) study of villages in the South West is particularly relevant because the considerable variations in population change rates that he noted did not appear to conform with any simple indices of accessibility . |
| 20 | ‘ I did not mean to speak about this , ’ Marguerite assured her worriedly , but Jenna smiled and got on with her task . |
| 21 | They stressed that Brazil did not intend to go beyond this stage as it had " no warmongering pretensions " . |
| 22 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |
| 23 | Pro-democracy campaigners had claimed that many eligible voters did not bother to register in 1987 prior to the 1988 one-party elections . |
| 24 | It did not purport to deal with all the subject matter of the field and it was believed that : |
| 25 | They did not like to talk to Egyptian people . |
| 26 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 27 | Eadberht 's son and successor , Oswulf , perished on 24 July 758 but his successor , Aethelwald Moll , did not begin to reign until 5 August . |
| 28 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 29 | His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box , and she did not seem to mind at all . |
| 30 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |