Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would abort a DC if it was decided not to proceed and complete the proposed change . |
| 2 | He tends not to formulate and face the difficulties that he encounters sufficiently rigorously , and erm to on the whole get away with difficulties by the skilful way in which he writes about them and by his wit . |
| 3 | ‘ We kept making chances , and at half time were told not to panic and start wellying everything forward , ’ said Sharpe . |
| 4 | do n't need any more of that , you know not to drink and drive you wan na learn your roundabouts , junctions and that and get how to give way and |
| 5 | I wondered who the young girl was , acting the doe for Henry 's buck , but I decided not to wait and see and promptly fled . |
| 6 | He decided not to stay and find out . |
| 7 | I try not to stare and saunter past holding my breath . |
| 8 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 9 | as if the movements of violence would eradicate a reality he preferred not to acknowledge and bring the girl back . |
| 10 | No approach to professional support and development , still less an account of ‘ good practice ’ , can afford not to identify and confront these . |
| 11 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 12 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 13 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 14 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 15 | Felix did not move and true to his word the batsman knocked him down . |
| 16 | She did not scream and weep — at least in front of him — when things went wrong and did not have a reputation for being raucous about women 's rights . |
| 17 | They did not move like shadows ; they did not shift and blur . |
| 18 | That is what happened , and we now realise that we must take away from such authorities that most unjust tool with which they managed to acquire electoral support that they did not deserve and have unscrupulously used . |
| 19 | She shook her head ( the long mane of fair hair was tied up , so it did not swish and fall over her shoulders ) . |
| 20 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 21 | Even the fires in the depths of the crater mouth had a kind of slow sly laughter in them that did not erupt and scream and tear at you as these fires did . |
| 22 | If I did not trust and live his fantasy image of myself I could no longer reach out to distorted splinters and did not know where to begin to look for myself . |
| 23 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 24 | ‘ For the last time , I did not try and seduce you . ’ |
| 25 | It is perhaps surprising that he did not count and find that he had double the actual number present , but he , too , has departed . |
| 26 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 27 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 28 | I do not sit and do that with kids . |
| 29 | Do not skimp and debase using margarine in place of butter , skimmed milk instead of cream . |
| 30 | There are no clay organisms ; and clays do not scavenge and process energy from their surroundings to keep themselves intact . |