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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In fact , we were supposed to be doing something with Eric and John , but Eric could n't make it , or perhaps did n't want to .
2	The surgeon apparently did not listen to his patient or respect her bodily integrity .
3	The Thwaites obviously did not subscribe to this tradition ( after all , they were not even considered Baldersdalians ! ) since John met his future bride when she was fifteen and in service at a farm in Lunedale .
4	This fact obviously did not conform to the elitist views of ‘ fitness to rule ’ of most racial nationalists .
5	Then you obviously did n't go to public school like I did .
6	I knew he 'd used firearms in the past and because he was on the run from prison he obviously did n't want to be rearrested .
7	Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child .
8	as if he suddenly did n't want to be here at all .
9	It did not take Hugo long to decide that the boy was wilful : he could learn , he just did not want to .
10	’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change .
11	At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies .
12	But er they just did n't go to funerals .
13	I just did n't want to .
14	I just did n't want to be on my own .
15	Well no I just did n't want to that was that .
16	She just did n't seem to be able to hang on to men , he thought impatiently , not like his Angie , wherever she was .
17	But with the younger erm West Indians I did n't feel that we we we just did n't seem to be able to find an approach .
18	But it just did n't seem to be a time when you could er get an entry .
19	I just did n't seem to be able to handle Eric on the telephone .
20	It just did n't seem to be having any effect .
21	‘ It just did n't sound to me like laughter .
22	erm it 's very difficult to spot what 's going to go wrong in advance and some of the things you suspect are dodgy nobody has any trouble with , some of the things that you just did n't occur to you that would go wrong do go wrong , it 's like , mm mm , yeah mm
23	Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards .
24	She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy .
25	Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease .
26	Of course , ‘ Ununited ’ is grammatically incorrect , but they probably did n't want to dis the place .
27	Late thirties , ought to have made sergeant by now but probably did n't want to .
28	I probably did n't appear to be concentrating .
29	What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on .
30	He could have done with something , fish and chips even , but the place was so goddamn countrified they probably did n't rise to things like that .