Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the terms of a final communiqué issued on June 26 all the factions agreed to implement an indefinite ceasefire and promised not to receive any further foreign military aid . |
| 2 | When she promised not to attend any more meetings without his permission , they were reconciled , but he died the same night , probably of a heart attack , with only Agnes in the house . |
| 3 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 4 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 5 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 6 | Erm was it only you that he phoned not to bring any scripts . |
| 7 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 8 | He even tried not to breathe all . |
| 9 | I tried not to let this interfere with les très riches heures de James Kirkup , but the wretchedness and misery were overwhelming . |
| 10 | For weeks life was very difficult as they both tried not to upset each other , even slightly . |
| 11 | I tried not to give any extra weight to the explanations or justifications made by one individual rather than another . |
| 12 | Bathsheba tried not to show any expression on her face . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , I think it might be better if we tried not to have any more contact with each other , do n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | Omar al-Bashir , concluded a two-day official visit to Kampala during which Uganda and Sudan signed a non-aggression treaty , in terms of which they also agreed not to allow any hostile armed activity in common border areas . |
| 15 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 16 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 17 | She 'd not given any address but the stamp had a WC1 postmark . |
| 18 | Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished |
| 19 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 20 | Well she 'd not had much of a life had she ? |
| 21 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 22 | Atkins seemed not to notice that ‘ selection policies based on the political policies of the local authority ’ combined with his earlier statement that ‘ censorship is the banning of material on political grounds ’ inevitably means that , for this librarian at least , censorship is an admitted and major constituent of the selection process . |
| 23 | Miss Phoebe seemed not to notice this slight impudence . |
| 24 | As late as 1938 , a government Inter-Departmental Committee on Abortion found that ‘ many mothers seemed not to understand that self-induced abortion was illegal . |
| 25 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 26 | She was n't sure she wanted to return , but seemed not to have much choice anymore , and so she stayed . |
| 27 | Clare wondered suspiciously why this sensationally good-looking man seemed not to have any New Year 's plans . |
| 28 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |
| 29 | He took her hand , then when she seemed not to mind this , put his arms round her . |
| 30 | Last year , the Bank pledged not to support any further logging projects in rainforests [ see ED no. 49/50 ] . |