Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built at the start of hostilities , facing the estuary , it was now used by playing children , courting couples , and the odd customers who , thanks to Knocker 's cider , had been taken short and decided not to risk trying to get home in time . |
| 2 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |
| 3 | Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks . |
| 4 | Although a military coup seems unlikely in these democratic times , Mr Kim does not want to risk rattling the top brass or provoking earnest young turks unless , or until , a glaring new scandal emerges — and one may be brewing over fighter-aircraft procurements . |
| 5 | I had to tell the story in a manner that the children would understand , but I did not want to risk ruining their sleep by a description of details . |
| 6 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 7 | In short , you need to watch your words if you do not want to risk jeopardising your job . |
| 8 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 9 | He says there appeared to be no demand for another residential home because the residents did not want to continue living together in such a large number . |
| 10 | You may not want to continue working there , in the circumstances . |
| 11 | She did not want to prepare to leave . |
| 12 | Equally , they wanted to be able to reduce their manpower as orders were completed and did not want to have to carry excess staff during slack periods . |
| 13 | Bismarck was alarmed ; he did not want to have to choose between his allies in a Balkan quarrel . |
| 14 | Ideally I would not want to have made changes but that 's football . |
| 15 | ‘ There is tight security at our homes but we do not want to have to put bars over the windows . ’ |
| 16 | At the same time she was certain that Maggie did not want to have to cope with that . |
| 17 | She did not want to have to think about problems , whatever they might be . |
| 18 | He did not want to have to speak for he did not want to hear the sound of his own voice . |
| 19 | But she did not want to have to confront him right now , she thought frantically . |
| 20 | Those dealing with the replies do not want to have to keep getting on the phone to the PROs concerned . |
| 21 | I do not want to have to found a Royal College of Ships ' Surgeons to carry on practising my brand of general practice . |
| 22 | We do have traditional travelling people but we also have a lot of people these days who are dropping out of society and who do not want to stay put anywhere . ’ |
| 23 | I do not want to get rid of him , so I was considering buying a 24″ × 24″ × 24″ tank for him alone . |
| 24 | But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process . |
| 25 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 26 | I do not want to get bogged down in that subject as I want to press on and try to answer questions asked . |
| 27 | I had a deep-seated feeling that the whole business of seances , trying to get in touch with spirits and souls who had ‘ passed on ’ was wrong and dangerous for me , and I did not want to get involved . |
| 28 | Hi-Grade was originally on the list too , but pulled out due to ‘ a personality clash ’ , while Elonex Plc did not want to get involved . |
| 29 | The army has made it endlessly and publicly clear that it does not want to get involved . |
| 30 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |