Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 2 | I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that . |
| 3 | However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided . |
| 4 | But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that . |
| 5 | The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe . |
| 6 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 7 | I did not want to do this and did n't go . |
| 8 | Do you not want to do this ? |
| 9 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 10 | In the paragraphs that follow the references to party manifestoes are not intended to do more than to highlight some of the more obvious differences in emphasis . |
| 11 | ‘ No , we do not need to do that . |
| 12 | You will not need to do this on the central loops because these disappear when the cable is pulled into place . |
| 13 | I can not promise to do that immediately . |
| 14 | Modern pond U/Vs are not designed to do this , though some may claim to do so , so useful pond filter bacteria should remain ( though see the Biotron below ) . |
| 15 | The publication of his work generally provoked in Eliot a sense of release — he had evacuated something , to use one of his favourite expressions , and was left with an agreeable sensation of vacancy — and after the appearance of " Little Gidding " in the autumn , he did not expect to do any serious intellectual work during the winter . |
| 16 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 17 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 18 | : Wilkinson will not hesitate to do that . |
| 19 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 20 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ But I 'm not going to do that . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Albert , you 're not going to do that , she does n't want to see your bricks . ’ |
| 23 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |
| 24 | So we will need to manage the whole of that block to the right of the dotted line , and therefore I think , members will appreciate that we are not going to do that effect , or indeed do it at all , if we simply continue spending at the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds which is the costs that we 're incurring in the current year . |
| 25 | I 'm not going to do that any more Shane . |
| 26 | Well I do n't want many because I 'm not going to do that many . |
| 27 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 28 | We 're not going to do this in four weeks . ’ |
| 29 | Are you not going to do this ? |
| 30 | and they will then they will say , Not going to do this . |