Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not dare open the blinds . |
| 2 | I tried calling softly , but there was no reply , and I did not dare make more noise for fear of disturbing the others . |
| 3 | I would have liked to drink coffee in one of the smoke-filled cafés lining the boulevard , but I did not dare enter . |
| 4 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 5 | The flower seller , Ms Sue Thompson , said : ‘ I did not dare say anything . |
| 6 | As she looked into it , she tried not to let slip just what a luxury this was . |
| 7 | The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself . |
| 8 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 9 | She did not dare let go but hung on to the rail , where another four hands also hung on , for dear life . |
| 10 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 11 | She did not dare say more . |
| 12 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 13 | Alternatively , the defendant may , by his conduct , have so terrified the victim , that she does not dare register her non-consent . |
| 14 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 15 | Consequently we do not dare assume that our partner will share our expectations in each situation . |
| 16 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 17 | As Whately Cook Taylor put it in 1874 , ‘ Hitherto , whatever the laws have touched , they have not dared invade the sacred precinct ’ , and such reluctance dictated the hesitations over passing the incest law until 1908 . |
| 18 | All the same , he did not dare tell Balanchine ‘ it 's not working ’ , he thought he must try . |
| 19 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 20 | Meredith Jones — who relished his protégé 's roughness — was aware of that and told his friend Philip Burton to keep an eye on him , make sure he did not let slip this second and last chance . |
| 21 | However , the deficiency of H is clear , and there are no plausible means by which H can be retained in the interior in substantially greater quantities than C and N. In section 4.4.3 certain difficulties were noted of Venus losing to space large quantities of H. To these difficulties must now be added the difficulty that if Venus has lost large quantities of H to space then the Earth , with its warm exosphere and Mars with its low gravitational field , should also have lost large quantities of H. This supports the conclusion that Venus has always been deficient in H , but it does not help explain why . |
| 22 | This can be a frightening experience because when a gila monster bites , it does not let go for some ten to fifteen minutes , during which time it continues to chew , injecting more and more venom into the wound . |
| 23 | It does not let go of them easily , and the aura of permanence and continuity is evidence of its tenacity . |