Example sentences of "[verb] not [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 2 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 3 | Likewise , other conditions , such as renal artery stenosis secondary to atherosclerosis , which might be expected to occur more frequently in the diabetic , appear not to do so ( Munichoodappa et al , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 5 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |
| 6 | Lizzy had made Kate promise not to let on she was a policewoman . |
| 7 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 8 | Working with Edward Herman , a business school professor , he 's especially good on showing how the companies create acceptable experts when ordinary ones — simple academics who 've spent lifetimes studying some area — ca n't be trusted not to point out inconvenient facts . |
| 9 | He can be trusted not to give too much away , ’ a former regimental commander says . |
| 10 | The matches are designed not to blow out in strong winds or when immersed in water . |
| 11 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 12 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 13 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 14 | Flavia did as she was told ; then tried not to drink too fast . |
| 15 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 16 | I tried not to shout so loud . |
| 17 | Tried not to plagiarize too flagrantly . |
| 18 | He tried not to look either left or right . |
| 19 | Alexandra tried not to look imploringly at her father . |
| 20 | Yanto tried not to look too eager . |
| 21 | Annie tried not to look too concerned . |
| 22 | He clung to the sides of the basket with all his strength and tried not to look down . |
| 23 | I just tried not to look down . |
| 24 | Wickham tried not to look as outraged as he felt . |
| 25 | Joseph Fernandez , the local CIA man , tried not to have too much to do with the local airstrip/farm , once he had helped start it ; but the cover was sometimes blown in definitive fashion . |
| 26 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 27 | Two-thirds of these were described as faddy while the rest were considered not to eat enough ( Butler and Golding 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Oh well er I asked Joyce and she said erm , he has n't to go in , he 's not bad enough |
| 29 | Some of the companies that would prefer not to do so may have something to hide . |
| 30 | You may prefer not to do so because of the risk of breach of confidence or discrimination . |