Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 2 | He pretended he did n't know me or did n't want to . |
| 3 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
| 4 | Somehow I felt I could not , or did not want to , explain about Miss Havisham and her strange house . |
| 5 | It seemed as if Walterkin 's request for more information had become a subliminal trigger which Lucien could not , or did not want to , ignore . |
| 6 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 7 | All company data obtained were screened to make sure they were Scotch Whisky specific , and did not relate to other spirits related sales and production costs . |
| 8 | The band were still distressed at the demise because their working relationship had been excellent and they had built up good friendships with the staff , and did not want to seen them lose their jobs . |
| 9 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 10 | She wanted and did not want to be there , fearing that her very presence would create complications as if they were contagious , but also that if she were not there , there would be no one to control events and protect Carolyn . |
| 11 | This concession was ignored by the other resistance parties , and Hun Sen said in a speech at the end of the month that he would not accept Sihanouk as SNC chair and did not want to be an SNC vice-chair . |
| 12 | Peter Armstrong , defending , said Ganguly had pretended to be his brother because he was already facing a charge of driving with excess alcohol and did not want to be remanded in custody . |
| 13 | It does not do to attribute human motives to animals but Billy said afterwards that it was as if she was reluctant to leave and did not expect to be back . |
| 14 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 15 | The hospital team again responded to this change and now once more talked to the new husband and did not talk to the parents . |
| 16 | They drank their tea and did not talk to each other . |
| 17 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |
| 18 | Secondly , whilst a wide measure of agreement on policy had existed among economic officials during the war ( especially within the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office ) , this was conditioned by the limited scope of wartime circumstances and did not extend to peacetime policies . |
| 19 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 20 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 was limited in its application to civil proceedings and did not extend to bankruptcy proceedings , which were the subject of a statutory scheme set out in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 ; that in bankruptcy proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination was abrogated by the Rules , and section 433 of the Act of 1986 rendered statements made in such proceedings admissible in evidence ‘ in any proceedings ; ’ and that , accordingly , the judge 's ruling that the documents were admissible was correct ( post , pp. 499C–E , H — 500B ) . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 23 | It is precisely a feature of the debate that no statement was innocent : employers and unionists used the arguments they hoped would further their own cause and did not appear to be aware of the contradictions in their logic . |
| 24 | The theoretical assumptions of the Lancaster Inventory are considerable , and did not appear to be widely shared by staff on the Modular Course . |
| 25 | These findings suggested that in HBsAg carriers with chronic hepatitis delta virus infection the synthesis and expression of pre-S peptides in liver correlated closely with the underlying hepatitis B virus replicative status and did not appear to be modulated by the concurrent hepatitis delta virus infection . |
| 26 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 27 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 28 | In January 1931 he left the Shadow Cabinet on the issue and did not return to communion with the official Conservative leadership until after the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 29 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 30 | At the time he was abroad on an official visit and did not return to France , settling instead in Uruguay . |