Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 2 | The US did not want this and refused to sign . |
| 3 | The president did not want this to happen . ’ |
| 4 | The president did not want this to happen . |
| 5 | Unfortunately we did not make this clear and we would like to apologise for any embarrassment caused . |
| 6 | In ensuring that these were of comparable standard with that of the universities , the CNAA became inevitably — though its Charter did not make this explicit — ; concerned with those institutional features , beyond the details of the course itself , which affected judgment of the quality of the student experience . |
| 7 | However , the clause did not make this clear . |
| 8 | There are also data from the Durham Palatinate records held at the University of Durham on prices and wages , material considered of particular importance by Beveridge since the published work of 1939 did not contain this material , being concentrated mainly south of a line from the Bristol Channel to the Humber . |
| 9 | ‘ I did not expect this from you , Louisa . |
| 10 | On June 10 OPEC 's Secretary-General Subroto said in Madrid that the resumption of Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil exports would be co-ordinated by the organization , which did not expect this to affect the stabilization of prices later in 1991 . |
| 11 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 12 | Whilst Lakatos did propose what was intended to be a universal criterion of rationality or scientificity , he did not regard this criterion as a consequence of logic alone , or somehow God-given . |
| 13 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 14 | Libya did not regard this claim as fully convincing . |
| 15 | But since his principal concern was with the psychological effect of poetry on the reader , he did not carry this sort of analysis very far . |
| 16 | Fahfakhs explained that Native Law did not cover this case . |
| 17 | A party that did not choose this platform ( e.g. for ideological reasons preferring less government spending ) would be defeated if the other did . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , many did not reach this country , the United States , Canada or any other safe country but ended up in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Dachau because they were denied the right to asylum . |
| 19 | G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 . |
| 20 | ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ , ‘ I 'm Not Always So Stupid ’ , ‘ Do n't Laugh ’ and ‘ Nothing Comes Easy ’ all expressed negative sentiments in their titles but Gedge did not realise this until it was pointed out . |
| 21 | Peter Dray , testing and commissioning engineer : ‘ Manifested all problems produced by BR reorganisation ; less than happy ’ with his job , as shown by performance in days up to and including November 27 ; despite having facilities , time and assistance for an independent wire count of Hemingway 's work , did not do this — far from being ‘ the last defence ’ , was no defence at all . |
| 22 | It is that if governments did not do this kind of thing the probability of their interfering in the workings of the market economy would a that much greater . |
| 23 | But Jim did not do this . |
| 24 | Of course , Lanfranc did not create this situation . |
| 25 | Unsurprisingly , the Divisional Court did not think this was enough . |
| 26 | ‘ I am surprised the judge did not think this matter a great deal more serious than the sentence appears to suggest . ’ |
| 27 | Probably he did not think this likely to happen . |
| 28 | Even Cassie , used now to the small eccentricities of her home , did not think this likely . |
| 29 | Rain did not think this was enough to suggest the brothers went to look for her and said so . |
| 30 | Rain did not think this necessary but dispatched Rosie on the errand . |