Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight : President Bush warns Iraq 's Saddam Hussein not to try to drag Israel into the Gulf crisis as Hussein threatens a long-range missile attack on Israel . |
| 2 | Charles had not wished to invite Ivan to the party . |
| 3 | Earlier , on June 12 , US Secretary of State James Baker had told a Senate committee that although the Kuwaiti government " may not be the optimum type of regime " , the USA did not seek to transform Kuwait into a Western-style democracy . |
| 4 | Under the new restrictions , which came into effect immediately , Palestinians were not permitted to enter Israel without a permit issued by the military authorities . |
| 5 | The typical Soviet response has been that ‘ the Soviet Union did not and does not intend to turn Afghanistan into a base against other countries ’ . |
| 6 | Henry had not wanted to bring Louisa on the expedition but she had cried to go , and the adults insisted that she not be left behind . |
| 7 | The war in the Gulf was not fought to liberate Kuwait from a medieval fiefdom , it was fought to liberate it from Iraqi occupation . |
| 8 | His brother was interned , his mother was told to move inland , away from the coast — where presumably it was thought she might signal to enemy U-boats , and Mauro himself , although a child , was not allowed to leave Easington without a permit . |