Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 2 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 3 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 4 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 5 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 6 | ‘ We decided not to go down this road last September , as we had considerable doubts about the financial arrangements . |
| 7 | ‘ Then all your family worries descended on your lovely shoulders and I decided not to add to that burden . |
| 8 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 9 | The islands ' governing Legislative Council on Oct. 26 repeated its protest to the UK government at its exclusion from the ongoing talks , and voted not to co-operate with any plan reached with Argentina until the islanders were assured of a protected 200-mile limit for their own use . |
| 10 | Since they could n't talk about that , they preferred not to talk at all . |
| 11 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 12 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 13 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 14 | There was a moment , God 's truth , she would not forget it , when the man with the gun seemed to smile at her , God 's truth and she did not trifle with that . |
| 15 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 16 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 17 | The Greeks did not go beyond that minimum of attention which their position demanded . |
| 18 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 19 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 20 | ‘ We did not go into that lightly , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 21 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 22 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 23 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but obviously I am interested in signing him . |
| 24 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but I am interested in signing him . ’ |
| 25 | He then reminisced about a house-party at which someone had suggested that Mr Eliot ( who did not go to many such parties ) should be invited to read some of his poems . |
| 26 | Although the three individual defendants had either signed or had been made aware of undertakings of confidentiality when they entered the employment of the plaintiff , counsel on behalf of the plaintiffs did not rely upon such undertakings before the judge but relied upon general implied principles of law in this area . |
| 27 | In Wings v. Ellis the defendant mysteriously did not rely upon any such defence . |
| 28 | Basil did not preach on such matters ; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate . |
| 29 | Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site . |
| 30 | George Neilson in Scotland [ q.v. ] , and Goddard Orpen in Ireland , she was to prove in a stream of articles and books that motte and bailey castles did not appear in these isles until after the Norman invasion . |