Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connor said later that Cripps pointed out unlawful payments recorded in the books to Bromley but promised not to mention them outside the club . |
| 2 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 3 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 4 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 5 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 6 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
| 7 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 8 | ‘ But as the driver was being so grumpy I decided not to mention it to him . ’ |
| 9 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 10 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 11 | I decided not to say anything to him . |
| 12 | All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all . |
| 13 | HEATHCLIFF HAD GIVEN me a letter for Catherine , but I decided not to show it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the house . |
| 14 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 15 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 16 | And , a definition of the excellent guest , one who keeps promises given during the hospitality : as well as giving the lad his own Sallust , Johnson promised to create the introductions by which young MacAulay could enter university , and he kept his word , although the boy eventually chose not to avail himself of it . |
| 17 | Paul grudged the money spent on Jonas , in his progressive asylum ; by now , the madman would not have known where he was ; a cheaper one would have done , but Paul dared not suggest it to his mother . |
| 18 | My index finger was sleeved in frost and I dared not bend it for fear of splitting the skin . |
| 19 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 20 | Salah did not need to persuade himself ; and his Egyptian teacher was also anxious that his daughter should continue — — but he did not want her to be the only one . |
| 21 | Similarly Mr. Pope , who was looking after his wife , said he did not want her to be anywhere else but at home : |
| 22 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 23 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
| 24 | He did not kiss her , she did not want him to . |
| 25 | She did not want him in her life . |
| 26 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
| 27 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 28 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 29 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 30 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |