Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd not offered to help her with the Christmas preparations and she had n't felt like asking him . |
| 2 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 3 | She thought that he 'd not started to drink , but might at any moment . |
| 4 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 5 | She seemed not to have to exert her vocal chords to extra volume . |
| 6 | It seemed not to seek to impose itself but merely to mark the occasion . |
| 7 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 8 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 9 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 10 | Lloyd George disarmed his opponents on Ireland with his Russian policy , and his opponents on Russia with his Irish policy , and they did not combine to oppose him . |
| 11 | While the more broadly based Architects and Antiquaries Club , founded in 1819 , while attempting to be an academic institution , did not aim to answer the growing need for a professional association . |
| 12 | The political press , directed as it was to a small , literate and politically informed public , did not aim to capture its readers with an entertaining and interesting package . |
| 13 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 14 | He did not want to live any longer . |
| 15 | I was now very weak from lack of food , and I began to wonder why I should struggle to stay alive , when I did not want to live . |
| 16 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He did not want to remember Glasgow . |
| 21 | Clive did not want to answer . |
| 22 | The Prior , ever curious , also tried to intervene but Corbett , taciturn and withdrawn , made it plain he did not want to answer questions . |
| 23 | Julia closed her eyes , partly because that was a question she did not want to answer and partly because she thought it might help to stop her flinging her arms around his neck and saying , kiss me , oh please kiss me . |
| 24 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 25 | But it was a beautiful book , too ; I did not want to put it down . |
| 26 | I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama . |
| 27 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 28 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I did not want to lock myself in with Heathcliff . |