Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 2 | And she did not want to talk to anyone . |
| 3 | But she did not want to talk to them . |
| 4 | She did not want to talk to her friend about Jamie , and she did not trust herself to hold a lengthy conversation with Bridget without mentioning his visit . |
| 5 | There was a suggestion in Bridget 's tone she did not want to respond to . |
| 6 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 7 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 8 | Rain did not want to explain to the others . |
| 9 | The first reason is that I did not want to advertise to anyone interested that a new swim had been create and cultivated . |
| 10 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 11 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |
| 12 | " The burial regulations and provision of mourning " , notes Stephen Jones , " make it plain that many a coasting man did not want to go to his maker like his deep-sea brother , sliding down a plank in a canvas sack with the last stitch through his nose " . |
| 13 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 14 | She did not want to go to her parents through fear of her father and because she might run into her baby 's father . |
| 15 | All she knew was that , unlike Cinderella , she did not want to go to Roman 's ball … |
| 16 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 17 | She did not want to add to her mother 's troubles . |
| 18 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 19 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 20 | Central government knew this would happen but did not want to admit to it in its plans . |
| 21 | She did not want to appear to be eavesdropping . |
| 22 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 23 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 24 | Liz did not want to speak to me , I noticed . |
| 25 | He did not want to speak to anyone , let alone Ford , but he made an effort and confirmed that the Colonel had indeed heard a cannon 's report , but very far away and with its sound much muted by the humid air . |
| 26 | And that he was the one person in the world she definitely did not want to speak to . |
| 27 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 28 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 29 | Things did not go according to Mr Takeshita 's plan . |
| 30 | But , from the start , the event did not go according to plan . |