Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In August 1985 the Supreme Council of the Afghan mujahidin Alliance , based in Peshawar , reiterated that its goal was the establishment of an independent Islamic state and declared that no power had the right to impose a political solution or a leadership on Afghanistan that did not satisfy the resistance fronts .
2 Suddenly , a fact struck Ken that did not please him at all .
3 An inspector and two crews were stranded at Fleetwood and did not get home until 5.00 p.m. the next day .
4 She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care .
5 Whatever the reason , Jamie left Ayr and did not live in Ayrshire again for about 40 years .
6 Take Hector and do n't come back , either of you , until he has gone .
7 She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children .
8 It 's if we go back in and think we 're good players again like we did at West Brom and do n't compete .
9 He expects continued growth in the United States but did not elaborate .
10 L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities .
11 ‘ I noticed a teaching job in Sheffield that did n't look too bad . ’
12 No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year .
13 I did n't want to be a Julie Rose' or a ‘ Cindy Summers ’ , I wanted a name like Kiki Dee or Dusty Springfield and did n't feel ‘ Zoe Bond ’ was quite ‘ it ’ .
14 Yesterday 's figures were for February and did not include recent huge job losses at Rolls-Royce .
15 The answer was going to be that er , just as we look back on Darwin and do n't notice his Lamarckism , in , in a sense , Darwin was n't as Darwinian as we might now think , so we 've probably got a picture of Freud which is , er , more Freudian as it were , than Freud really was .
16 The Soviet leadership , no doubt extremely relieved that Castro had succeeded in crushing the invasion without having to redeem the pledges that Khrushchev had made to him , extracted maximum propaganda value from Washington 's loss of face , but once again reassured the Americans that ‘ we have no bases in Cuba and do not intend to establish any ’ ( Khrushchev 's message to J. F. Kennedy , 22 April 1961 , US Department of State Bulletin , 8 May 1961 , pp. 664–6 ) .
17 I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July .
18 The story was by one Paul Hiebert and did not appear in book form until 1947 .
19 Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time .
20 In October , Leech was refused planning permission for housing development to the south-west of Cramlington Village but did not appeal against this decision .
21 As a young man he emigrated to England but did not become a British citizen until 1918 , though he served in the War Office Intelligence Department during World War I.
22 Evening Primrose Oil ( e.g. Efamol ) is helpful for PMT but does not contain any vitamins or minerals .
23 ft , which makes Cramlington one of the major peripheral retail developments in Tyneside but does not produce the kind of balanced traditional shopping centre originally intended .
24 It 's fine if you want to eat them Anthony but do n't moan when Charlotte has hers tomorrow , there you go
25 The inquest was told Sarah left her digs in early December but did not go to her home .
26 Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years .
27 According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne .
28 She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion .
29 She hates Odborough and does not want to see more of it than need be .
30 Then she popped 'em on in Haddenham And did n't feel too bad in 'em : She felt in 'em , in Cheltenham , Just as right as rain .
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