Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 2 | it 's like the , cos I keep saying if you must do those F's you do it at school I said , but do not do them for me , I said if you do I do not want to see them , but again you 've got a conflict there between home and school |
| 3 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 4 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 5 | The Prussians did not see , did not want to see , could not afford to see , this side of life in their border districts . |
| 6 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 7 | He did not want to see them simply crushed , not only because he respected their opinion , but because he would have to go on working with them after the Council . |
| 8 | She did not want to see him , and did so as little as possible . |
| 9 | She did not want to see him or speak to him . |
| 10 | She was angry enough to go into his room and accuse him ; but she thought better of it , for he was shifty and quick and , besides , she did not want to see him . |
| 11 | I did not want to see him . |
| 12 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 13 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 14 | Franco had always had this power to part the curtains on a scene he did not want to see . |
| 15 | He did not want to see her again , and be faced with his own guilt . |
| 16 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 17 | She was afraid to make much noise , for fear of being overheard by her employer next door , for she did not want to see her until after Benedict 's promised visit . |
| 18 | Lucie cursed , but dropped down from the cart seat and came to stand behind Gabriel , side-on to the door , snatching sidelong glances at the thing he did not want to see . |
| 19 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 20 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 21 | ‘ These men had been trained to do specific jobs and we did not want to see their skills just thrown away . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 23 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 24 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 25 | At least now we know it makes smaller patterns , which we did not expect to see . |
| 26 | She did not expect to see much of Liz and Alix , who had married and made their own lives after another pattern . |
| 27 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 28 | He did not expect to see the money again . |
| 29 | She certainly did not expect to see the beautiful cake especially made by Tina Denny , iced in Medau Blue , with our logo girl in one corner , or the surprise presentation of a charming Royal Doulton figurine , accompanied by much love and good wishes . |
| 30 | Frederick did not care to see that these ambitions could only be satisfied at Poland 's expense and that they threatened Poland 's existence . |